Connexin26 expression is associated with aggressive phenotype in human papillary and follicular thyroid cancers

Cancer Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 248-256

  Naoi, Yasuto ^a   Miyoshi, Yasuo ^a   Taguchi, Tetsuya ^a   Kim, Seung Jin ^a   Arai, Takashi ^a   Maruyama, Naomi ^a   Tamaki, Yasuhiro ^a   Noguchi, Shinzaburo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CD34; Connexin26; D2 40; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CONNEXINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; PHENOTYPE; PROGNOSIS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 40649094015     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2007.12.008     Document Type: Article

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