Sequential WT1 and CTNNB1 mutations and alterations of β-catenin localisation in intralobar nephrogenic rests and associated Wilms tumours: Two case studies

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1013-1016

  Fukuzawa, Ryuji ^a   Heathcott, Rosemary W ^a   More, Helen E ^a   Reeve, Anthony E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; WT1 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTEMA; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPITHELIUM; GENE MUTATION; GRANULAR CELL; GRANULAR CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; MICRODISSECTION; NEPHROBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TUMOR; TUMOR GROWTH;

BASE SEQUENCE; BETA CATENIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MICRODISSECTION; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WILMS TUMOR; WT1 PROTEINS;

EID: 34548831074     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2006.043083     Document Type: Article

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