Snail1 expression in colorectal cancer and its correlation with clinical and pathological parameters

BMC Cancer

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kroepil, Feride ^a   Fluegen, Georg ^a   Vallböhmer, Daniel ^a   Baldus, Stephan E ^a   Dizdar, Levent ^a   Raffel, Andreas M ^a   Hafner, Dieter ^b   Stoecklein, Nikolas H ^a   Knoefel, Wolfram T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colorectal carcinoma; E cadherin; EMT; Prognostic factor; Snail1

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCORING SYSTEM; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADHERINS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84875192492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-13-145     Document Type: Article

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