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Massoni Neto,L.M.; Bianchi,C.P.; Ab'Saber,A.M.; Parra,E.R.; Takagaki,T.; Pereira,J.C.; Soares,F.A.; Leite,K.; Capelozzi,V.L.. |
Malignancy of pulmonary large cell carcinomas (LCC) increases from classic LCC through LCC with neuroendocrine morphology (LCCNM) to large cell neuroendocrine carcinomas (LCNEC). However, the histological classification has sometimes proved to be difficult. Because the malignancy of LCC is highly dependent on proteins with functions in the cell cycle, DNA repair, and apoptosis, p53 has been targeted as a potentially useful biological marker. p53 mutations in lung cancers have been shown to result in expression and protein expression also occurs in the absence of mutations. To validate the importance of both p53 protein expression (by immunostaining) and p53 gene mutations in lung LCC (by PCR-single strand conformational polymorphism analysis of exons 5, 6,... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Large cell carcinoma; P53; Genetics; Molecular biology; Lung cancer; Mutation analysis. |
Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2007000800004 |
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