Role for connexin 26 in metastasis of human malignant melanoma: Communication between melanoma and endothelial cells via connexin 26

Cancer

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1162-1172

  Saito Katsuragi, Mamiko ^a   Asada, Hideo ^a   Niizeki, Hironori ^a   Katoh, Fumitaka ^b   Masuzawa, Mikio ^c   Tsutsumi, Masahiro ^d   Kuniyasu, Hiroki ^a   Ito, Akihiko ^e   Nojima, Hiroshi ^f   Miyagawa, Sachiko ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nippon   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Saiseikai Chuwa Hospital   (Japan)

^e KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Connexin 26; Endothelial cell; Gap junction; Melanoma; Metastasis

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; METASTASIS; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADULT; AGED; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MEMBRANE; CONNEXINS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34548183018     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22894     Document Type: Article

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