A comprehensive expression analysis of mucins in appendiceal carcinoma in a multicenter study: MUC3 is a novel prognostic factor.

Mucins are implicated in survival in various cancers, but there have been no report addressed on survival in appendiceal carcinoma, an uncommon disease with different clinical and pathological features from those of other colon cancers. We aimed to investigate the clinical implications of expression...

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Main Authors: Hiroaki Shibahara, Michiyo Higashi, Seiya Yokoyama, Karine Rousseau, Iwao Kitazono, Masahiko Osako, Hiroshi Shirahama, Yukie Tashiro, Yasuhiro Kurumiya, Michihiko Narita, Shingo Kuze, Hiroshi Hasagawa, Takehito Kato, Hitoshi Kubota, Hideaki Suzuki, Toshiyuki Arai, Yu Sakai, Norihiro Yuasa, Masahiko Fujino, Shinji Kondo, Yoshichika Okamoto, Tatsuyoshi Yamamoto, Takashi Hiromatsu, Eiji Sasaki, Kazuhisa Shirai, Satoru Kawai, Koutarou Hattori, Hideki Tsuji, Osamu Okochi, Masaki Sakamoto, Akinobu Kondo, Naomi Konishi, Surinder K Batra, Suguru Yonezawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4281150?pdf=render