Prion protein expression and the M129V polymorphism of the PRNP gene in patients with colorectal cancer

Molecular Carcinogenesis

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 693-699

  Antonacopoulou, Anna G ^a   Palli, Maria ^a   Marousi, Stella ^b   Dimitrakopoulos, Fotinos Ioannis ^a   Kyriakopoulou, Urania ^a   Tsamandas, Athanasios C ^b   Scopa, Chrisoula D ^b   Papavassiliou, Athanasios G ^c   Kalofonos, Haralabos P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Clinicopathological data; Genotyping; Immunohistochemitry; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRPC PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 77954467029     PISSN: 08991987     EISSN: 10982744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mc.20642     Document Type: Article

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