Molecular markers of cancer in cartilaginous fish: Immunocytochemical study of PCNA, p-53, myc and ras expression in neoplastic and hyperplastic tissues from free ranging blue sharks, Prionace glauca (L.)

Journal of Fish Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 107-115

  Borucinska, J D ^a   Schmidt, B ^a   Tolisano, J ^a   Woodward, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue shark; Immunocytochemistry; myc; p 53; Proliferating cell nuclear antigen; Ras

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYCLINE; MYC PROTEIN; PROTEIN P53; RAS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; FISH DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHARK;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FISH DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; RAS PROTEINS; SHARKS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

CHONDRICHTHYES; PRIONACE GLAUCA;

EID: 38449087171     PISSN: 01407775     EISSN: 13652761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2761.2007.00871.x     Document Type: Article

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