The Wnt-signaling pathway is not implicated in tumorigenesis of Merkel cell carcinoma

Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 22-26

  Liu, Shuang ^a   Daa, Tsutomu ^a   Kashima, Kenji ^a   Kondoh, Yoshiyuki ^a   Yokoyama, Shigeo ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIN; BETA CATENIN; DNA; WNT PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BETA CATENIN; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, APC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 33846080560     PISSN: 03036987     EISSN: 16000560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2006.00577.x     Document Type: Article

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