Molecular pathological findings of Merkel cell polyomavirus in lung cancer: A possible etiopathogenetic link?

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 133, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3016-3017

  Antoniou, Katerina M ^a   Lasithiotaki, Ismini ^a   Symvoulakis, Emmanouil ^b   Derdas, Stavros P ^b   Psaraki, Anna ^a   Spandidos, Demetrios A ^b   Stathopoulos, Efstathios N ^b   Siafakas, Nikolaos M ^a   Sourvinos, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IRAKLION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE;

BK VIRUS; EPIGENETICS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; JC VIRUS; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MERKEL CELL POLYOMAVIRUS; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; UPREGULATION; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MERKEL CELL POLYOMAVIRUS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2;

EID: 84885593312     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.28308     Document Type: Letter

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