New developments in intracrinology of human breast cancer: Estrogen sulfatase and sulfotransferase

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1155, Issue , 2009, Pages 76-79

  Sasano, Hironobu ^a   Nagasaki, Shuji ^a   Miki, Yasuhiro ^a   Suzuki, Takashi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Estrogen; Intracrinology; Sulfatase (STS); Sulfotransferase (EST)

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN SULFOTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; STERYL SULFATASE;

BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOMA CELL; CHROMOSOME MICRODISSECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCATION; HORMONE DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECURRENCE RISK; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STROMA CELL; TUMOR VOLUME; UPREGULATION;

EID: 61649124894     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03683.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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