Immunohistochemical expression analysis of Cx43, Cx26, c-KIT and PlAP in contralateral testis biopsies of patients with non-seminomatous testicular germ cell tumor

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-81

  Steiner, Marianne ^a   Weipoltshammer, Klara ^a   Viehberger, Gerhard ^a   Meixner, Eva Maria ^b   Lunglmayr, Gerhard ^c   Schöfer, Christian ^a  

^a Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^b Hospital Mistelbach   (Austria)

^c Karl Landsteiner Institute for Andrology and Prostate Research   (Austria)

Author keywords

CIS (carcinoma in situ); Dysgenesis; Gap junction; Immunohistochemistry; Testicular architecture

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE PLACENTA ISOENZYME; CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; ONCOGENE C KIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS BIOPSY; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78651508494     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-010-0769-8     Document Type: Article

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