High flotillin-2 expression is associated with lymph node metastasis and Breslow depth in melanoma [1]

Melanoma Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 461-463

  Doherty, Sean D ^a,b   Prieto, Victor G ^b   George, Saira ^a   Hazarika, Parul ^b   Duvic, Madeleine ^b,c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Caveolae; Flotillin; Lipid rafts; Melanoma prognosis; Neoplasm metastasis; Reggie

Indexed keywords

FLOTILLIN 2; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SKIN TUMOR;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MELANOMA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33749444429     PISSN: 09608931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.cmr.0000222592.75858.20     Document Type: Letter

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