Altered desmoplakin expression at transcriptional and protein levels provides prognostic information in human oropharyngeal cancer

Human Pathology

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1320-1329

  Papagerakis, Silvana ^a,b   Shabana, Al Hassan ^a   Pollock, Brad H ^c   Papagerakis, Petros ^d   Depondt, Joël ^a,e   Berdal, Ariane ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DES CORDELIERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Desmoplakin; Metastasis; Oropharynx; Squamous cell carcinomas

Indexed keywords

DESMOPLAKIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DISTANT METASTASIS; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL ADHESION; COHORT STUDIES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DESMOPLAKINS; DESMOSOMES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 68349145959     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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