High expression of Lewis y antigen and CD44 is correlated with resistance to chemotherapy in epithelial ovarian cancers.

OBJECTIVES:To measure Lewis y antigen and CD44 antigen expression in epithelial ovarian carcinoma and to correlate the levels of these antigens with clinical response to chemotherapy. METHODS:The study cases included 34 cases of ovarian carcinoma with resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs, 6 partiall...

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Main Authors: Zhenhua Hu, Jian Gao, Danye Zhang, Qing Liu, Limei Yan, Lili Gao, Juanjuan Liu, Dawo Liu, Shulan Zhang, Bei Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3585297?pdf=render