Snail is an independent prognostic predictor for progression and patient survival of gastric cancer

Cancer Science

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1296-1303

  He, Hongyong ^a   Chen, Weidong ^a   Wang, Xuefei ^a   Wang, Cong ^a   Liu, Fenglin ^a   Shen, Zhenbin ^a   Xu, Jiejie ^a   Gu, Jianxin ^a   Sun, Yihong ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STEM CELL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER TISSUE; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; SURVIVAL RATE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84863332428     PISSN: 13479032     EISSN: 13497006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2012.02295.x     Document Type: Article

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