Prognostic significance of melanoma differentiation and trans-differentiation

Cancers

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 989-999

  Maddodi, Nityanand ^a   Setaluri, Vijayasaradhi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Melanocyte; Melanoma; Prognostic markers; Trans differentiation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 100; MELAN A; MELANIN; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NEDD9 PROTEIN; NESTIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 1; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M1; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 1; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR GENE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GENE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TUMOR CELL; VASCULOGENIC MIMICRY;

EID: 79952270681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers2020989     Document Type: Review

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