Leptin and its receptor are overexpressed in brain tumors and correlate with the degree of malignancy

Brain Pathology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 481-489

  Riolfi, Mirko ^a,b   Ferla, Rita ^a,c   Valle, Luis Del ^d   Piña Oviedo, Sergio ^d   Scolaro, Laura ^a,c   Micciolo, Rocco ^e   Guidi, Micol ^a,f   Terrasi, Marianna ^a,c   Cetto, Gian Luigi ^b   Surmacz, Eva ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Glioblastoma; Leptin; Leptin receptor; Malignant progression; Novel biomarker

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE B; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TISSUE; CANCER CELL; CELL GROWTH; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EPENDYMOMA; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SAMPLE; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR GROWTH;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL COUNT; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KI-67 ANTIGEN; LEPTIN; ONCOGENE PROTEIN V-AKT; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 75949101329     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: 17503639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2009.00323.x     Document Type: Article

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