Expression profile of REG family proteins REG Iα and REG IV in advanced gastric cancer: Comparison with mucin phenotype and prognostic markers

Modern Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 906-913

  Yamagishi, Hidetsugu ^a   Fukui, Hirokazu ^a   Sekikawa, Akira ^a   Kono, Tokuyuki ^a   Fujii, Shigehiko ^a   Ichikawa, Kazuhito ^a   Tomita, Shigeki ^a   Imura, Johji ^a   Hiraishi, Hideyuki ^a   Chiba, Tsutomu ^b   Fujimori, Takahiro ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; MUC; Prognosis; REG protein

Indexed keywords

MUCIN; MUCIN 5AC; PROTEIN; PROTEIN REG IALPHA; PROTEIN REG IV; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOMACH CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GASTRIC MUCINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LECTINS, C-TYPE; LITHOSTATHINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 67650705470     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2009.41     Document Type: Article

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