The PIWI protein acts as a predictive marker for human gastric cancer

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 315-325

  Wang, Yang ^a   Liu, Yanxia ^b   Shen, Xiaoying ^b   Zhang, Xiaoyan ^b   Chen, Ximei ^a   Yang, Changqin ^a   Gao, Hengjun ^a,b  

^a TONGJI HOSPITAL OF TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Engineering Center for Biochip   (China)

Author keywords

Argonaute protein; Gastric cancer; Immunohistochemistry; Tissue microarray

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; PIWIL1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PIWIL2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PIWIL4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH TUMOR; TIME; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CHINA; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84864299705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19362625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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