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Vinculin: its possible use as a marker of normal collecting ducts and renal neoplasms with collecting duct system phenotype.
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc - 1 Oct 2000
Kuroda N, Naruse K, Miyazaki E, Hayashi Y, Yoshikawa C, Ashida S, Moriki T, Yamasaki Y, Numoto S, Yamamoto Y, Yamasaki I, Hiroi M, Shuin T, Enzan H
Abstract excerpt
Vinculin is a cytoskeletal protein associated with membrane actin-filament-attachment sites of cell-cell and cell-matrix adherens-type junctions. In this article, we examine the expression of vinculin to elucidate its role in human renal neoplasms. We reviewed surgically resected specimens and selected available tissue from 79 renal tumors in 78 patients. There were 55 men and 23 women. Their mean age was 61...
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