Assessment of muscarinic and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor expression in primitive neuroectodermal tumor/Ewing family of tumor and desmoplastic small round cell tumor: An immunohistochemical and Western blot study of tissue microarray and cell lines

Fetal and Pediatric Pathology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 83-97

  Schlauder, Scott M ^a   Steffensen, Thora S ^a   Morgan, Michael ^b   Letson, Douglas G ^c   Pledger, Warren J ^c   Ma, Le ^c   Bui, Marilyn M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Ewing sarcoma; Immunohistochemistry; Primitive neuroectodermal tumor; Sarcoma; Tissue microarray; Western blot

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESMOPLASTIC SMALL ROUND CELL TUMOR; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCHOOL CHILD; TISSUE MICROARRAY; TUMOR CELL LINE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BONE NEOPLASMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHILD; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA, EWING'S; SARCOMA, SMALL CELL; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 45849126780     PISSN: 15513815     EISSN: 15513823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15513810802077529     Document Type: Article

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