A CRP genetic polymorphism associated with the tumoral expression of CRP in esophageal cancer

Surgery Today

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 339-340

  Motoyama, Satoru ^a   Nakatsu, Toshinobu ^a   Miura, Masatomo ^b   Hinai, Yudai ^b   Minamiya, Yoshihiro ^a   Ogawa, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kita University Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

C reactive protein; Esophageal cancer; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE; THYMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN GENE; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTANT METASTASIS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THORAX CANCER;

C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DNA, NEOPLASM; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84878482956     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-012-0294-6     Document Type: Article

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