Reduction of GSTP1 expression by DNA methylation correlates with clinicopathological features in pituitary adenomas

Modern Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 856-865

  Yuan, YunFeng ^a   Qian, Zhi Rong ^a   Sano, Toshiaki ^a   Asa, Sylvia L ^b   Yamada, Shozo ^c   Kagawa, Noriko ^d   Kudo, Eiji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

GSTP1; Methylation; Pituitary adenoma

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE P1;

ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; GENE SILENCING; GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASE PI; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 46049116276     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2008.60     Document Type: Article

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