The clinicopathological significance of the expression of Granzyme B in oral squamous cell carcinoma

Oral Oncology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 185-189

  Costa, Nádia Lago ^a   Alencar, Rita de Cássia Gonçalves ^b   Valadares, Marize Campos ^a   Silva, Tarcília Aparecida ^c   Mendonça, Elismauro Francisco ^a   Batista, Aline Carvalho ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b Araujo Jorge Hospital   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Granzyme B; Oral cancer; Oral squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

GRANZYME B; LIPOCORTIN 5; PROTEIN BAX;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; CELL DENSITY; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GRANZYMES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 76749105191     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2009.11.016     Document Type: Article

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