Progranulin and cholangiocarcinoma: Another bad boy on the block!

Gut

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 170-171

  Alvaro, Domenico ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGRANULIN;

BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TUMOR GROWTH; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84855196385     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2011-301518     Document Type: Note

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