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p53 protein and Ki-67 overexpression in urothelial dysplasia of bladder.
Applied immunohistochemistry & molecular morphology : AIMM - 1 Dec 2002
Sun Wei, Zhang Ping L, Herrera Guillermo A
Abstract excerpt
Mutated tumor suppression gene p53 is a common genetic abnormality in most papillary or invasive transitional cell carcinomas (TCC). In these cases, overexpression of p53 protein is detectable in nuclei by immunohistochemical methods. Nuclear antigen Ki-67, a marker of cellular proliferation, has been shown to correlate with the growth of many human neoplasms, including TCC. Since overexpression of p53 protein...
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