WT1 Is not a reliable marker to distinguish reactive from neoplastic astrocyte populations in the central nervous system

Brain Pathology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1090-1095

  Bourne, T David ^a   Elias, W Jeffrey ^a   Lopes, M Beatriz S ^a   Mandell, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

astrocytoma; glioma; gliosis; normal brain; reactive astrocytosis; WT1

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; WT1 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL DEATH; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; GLIOMA; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROVASCULATURE; MITOSIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REACTIVE GLIOSIS; TUMOR CELL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ELECTRODES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WT1 PROTEINS;

EID: 78449313136     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: 17503639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2010.00415.x     Document Type: Article

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