Pathological significance of connexin 26 expression in colorectal adenocarcinoma

Oncology Reports

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 913-919

  Hong, Ran ^a   Lim, Sung Chul ^a  

^a Chosun University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Colorectum; Connexin 26; Immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; PROTEIN P53; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON MUCOSA; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL TIME; CHEMISTRY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONNEXINS; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 43849092145     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.19.4.913     Document Type: Article

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