Transcription factors Snail, Slug, Twist, and SIP1 in spindle cell carcinoma of the head and neck

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 454, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 549-555

  Kojc, Nika ^a   Zidar, Nina ^a   Gale, Nina ^a   Poljak, Mario ^a   Fujs Komloš, Kristina ^a   Cardesa, Antonio ^b   Höfler, Heinz ^c,d   Becker, Karl Friedrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pathogenesis; SIP1; Slug; Snail; Spindle cell carcinoma; Transcription repression; Twist

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIP1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 67349204350     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-009-0771-5     Document Type: Article

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