Expression of LGR5, an intestinal stem cell marker, during each stage of colorectal tumorigenesis

Anticancer Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 263-270

  Takeda, Kayoko ^a   Kinoshita, Ichiro ^a   Shimizu, Yasushi ^a   Matsuno, Yoshihiro ^a   Shichinohe, Toshiaki ^a   Dosaka Akita, Hirotoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Immunohistochemistry; LGR5; Stem cell marker; Wnt pathway

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CELL MARKER; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; MYC PROTEIN; PROTEIN LGR5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7 LIKE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR CELL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA IN SITU; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTESTINES; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; STEM CELLS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 79851502476     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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