Sporadic microsatellite instability-high colon cancers rarely display immunohistochemical evidence of Wnt signaling activation

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 313-317

  Panarelli, Nicole C ^a   Vaughn, Cecily P ^b   Samowitz, Wade S ^b   Yantiss, Rhonda K ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

APC; BRAF; serrated neoplastic pathway; sessile serrated polyp; catenin

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; B RAF KINASE; BETA CATENIN; BRAF PROTEIN, HUMAN; CTNNB1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MLH1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PMS2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; COLON TUMOR; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AGED; BETA CATENIN; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84924049990     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0000000000000380     Document Type: Article

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