Thymosin β4 expression in human tissues and in tumors using tissue microarrays

Applied Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 160-167

  Jo, Jin Ok ^a   Kang, Yun Jeong ^a   Ock, Mee Sun ^a   Kleinman, Hynda K ^b   Chang, Hee Kyung ^a   Cha, Hee Jae ^a  

^a Kosin University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

human cancer; immunohistochemistry; normal tissue; Thymosin 4; tissue microarray

Indexed keywords

THYMOSIN BETA4;

ACINAR CELL; ADRENAL GLAND; APPENDIX; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BONE TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; CARCINOGENESIS; COLON; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DUODENUM; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LIVER; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE; MELANOMA; MUSCLE CELL; OSTEOSARCOMA; PAROTID GLAND TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALIVARY GLAND; SCREENING; SKIN TUMOR; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; SPLEEN; STOMACH; STOMACH TUMOR; THYMUS; THYROID GLAND; TISSUE MICROARRAY; TONGUE TUMOR; TUMOR; UPREGULATION; URETER;

ADULT; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OSTEOSARCOMA; THYMOSIN; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 79951945299     PISSN: 15412016     EISSN: 15334058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAI.0b013e3181f12237     Document Type: Article

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