Increased expression of calpain 6 during the progression of uterine cervical neoplasia: Immunohistochemical analysis

Oncology Reports

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 859-863

  Lee, Sun Joo ^a   Kim, Byoung Gie ^b   Choi, Yoon La ^b   Lee, Jeong Won ^b  

^a Konkuk University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Calpain 6 protein; Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; Immunohistochemistry; Squamous cell carcinoma; Uterine cervical neoplasms

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; CALPAIN 6;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE CERVIX EPITHELIUM; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE COURSE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; CALPAIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 43849092147     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.19.4.859     Document Type: Article

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