Early B-Cell differentiation in merkel cell carcinomas: Clues to cellular ancestry

Cancer Research

Volumn 73, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 4982-4987

  Hausen, Axel Zur ^a   Rennspiess, Dorit ^a   Winnepenninckx, Veronique ^a   Speel, Ernst Jan ^a   Kurz, Anna Kordelia ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX5;

ADULT; AGED; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MERKEL CELL POLYOMAVIRUS; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION;

EID: 84882579209     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-13-0616     Document Type: Review

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