Age-related alteration in the association of microsatellite instability with absent hMLH1 expression and histological types of colorectal carcinoma

Pathology International

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 597-603

  Arai, Tomio ^a   Sugai, Tamotsu ^c   Kasahara, Ichiro ^a   Sawabe, Motoji ^a   Honma, Naoko ^b   Aida, Junko ^b   Nakamura, Shin Ichi ^c   Takubo, Kaiyo ^b  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colorectal carcinoma; Elderly; Histological type; hMLH1; Microsatellite instability

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MLH1;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MUCINOUS CARCINOMA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

EID: 33748868177     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2006.02014.x     Document Type: Article

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