Expression of the glioma-associated oncogene homolog (GLI) 1 in human breast cancer is associated with unfavourable overall survival

BMC Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 298-

  Haaf, Anette ten ^a   Bektas, Nuran ^b   von Serenyi, Sonja ^a   Losen, Inge ^a   Arweiler, Elfriede C ^a   Hartmann, Arndt ^c   Knüchel, Ruth ^a   Dahl, Edgar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1; GLI1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR TYPING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE LEVEL; TISSUE MICROARRAY; BREAST TUMOR; CELL LINE; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 70349786795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-298     Document Type: Article

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