The role of leptin in gastric cancer: Clinicopathologic features and molecular mechanisms

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 446, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 822-829

  Lee, Kang Nyeong ^a   Choi, Ho Soon ^a   Yang, Sun Young ^b   Park, Hyun Ki ^a   Lee, Young Yiul ^a   Lee, Oh Young ^a   Yoon, Byung Chul ^a   Hahm, Joon Soo ^a   Paik, Seung Sam ^a  

^a Hanyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Hospital Healthcare System Gangnam Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

ERK1 2; Gastric cancer; Leptin; Leptin receptor; STAT3

Indexed keywords

ERK1/2; GASTRIC CANCER; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; STAT3;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEPTIN; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; STOMACH; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84899472900     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.02.072     Document Type: Article

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