Expression of metastasis suppressor gene maspin is reduced in breast cancer brain metastases and correlates with the estrogen receptor status

Neurological Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 303-308

  Stark, Andreas M ^a   Schem, Christian ^a   Maass, Nicolai ^a,b   Hugo, H H ^a   Jonat, Walter ^a   Mehdorn, H Maximilian ^a   Held Feindt, Janka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Brain tumor; MDA MB 231; Real time RT PCR; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; KI 67 ANTIGEN; MASPIN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIMARY TUMOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; KI-67 ANTIGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SERPINS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77951229800     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164109X12518779082192     Document Type: Article

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