Primary Breast Cancer Tumours Contain High Amounts of IgA1 Immunoglobulin: An Immunohistochemical Analysis of a Possible Carrier of the Tumour-Associated Tn Antigen

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Welinder, Charlotte ^a   Baldetorp, Bo ^a   Blixt, Ola ^b   Grabau, Dorthe ^c   Jansson, Bo ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; HELIX POMATIA AGGLUTININ; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; TN ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; HINGE REGION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; TUMOR CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, TUMOR-ASSOCIATED, CARBOHYDRATE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FEMALE; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LECTINS; MICE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS;

HELIX POMATIA;

EID: 84876301134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061749     Document Type: Article

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