Expression of hedgehog signaling molecules in Merkel cell carcinoma

Head and Neck

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 333-340

  Brunner, Markus ^a   Thurnher, Dietmar ^a   Pammer, Johannes ^a   Heiduschka, Gregor ^a   Petzelbauer, Peter ^b   Schmid, Christoph ^c   Schneider, Sven ^a   Erovic, Boban M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Indian hedgehog; Merkel cell carcinoma; Patched; Smoothened hedgehog; Sonic hedgehog

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DIMETHOATE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; METHOTREXATE; PROTEIN PATCHED; SMOOTHENED PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI3; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHEEK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EAR; ELBOW; EYELID; FACE; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; MOLECULE; MOUTH MUCOSA; NECK; NOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THIGH; THORAX; TISSUE MICROARRAY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 76249117822     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21191     Document Type: Article

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