Connexin 26 expression correlates with less aggressive phenotype of intestinal type-gastric carcinomas

International Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 709-716

  Liu, Xiaoli ^a   Furuya, Tomoko ^b   Li, Dongyan ^c   Xu, Jingda ^a   Cao, Xixi ^a   Li, Qingquan ^a   Xu, Jiawen ^a   Xu, Zude ^a   Sasaki, Kohsuke ^b   Liu, Xiuping ^a,c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Jilin Armed Police Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Connexin 26; Gastric carcinoma; Immunohistochemistry; Intestinal type gastric carcinomas; Survival analyses

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; TUMOR MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; STOMACH CARCINOMA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CONNEXINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77951754867     PISSN: 11073756     EISSN: 1791244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijmm_00000395     Document Type: Article

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