Overexpression of Snail is associated with lymph node metastasis and poor prognosis in patients with gastric cancer

BMC Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Shin, Na Ri ^a   Jeong, Eun Hui ^b   Choi, Chang In ^a   Moon, Hyun Jung ^a   Kwon, Chae Hwa ^a   Chu, In Sun ^c   Kim, Gwang Ha ^a   Jeon, Tae Yong ^a   Kim, Dae Hwan ^a   Lee, Jae Hyuk ^b   Park, Do Youn ^a  

^a Pusan National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Lymph node metastasis; Snail; Stomach; Survival

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; STROMELYSIN 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SNAIL GENE; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 11; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROGNOSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84868689227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-12-521     Document Type: Article

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