Article
Reactivity to fucose-binding proteins of Lotus tetragonolobus correlates with metastatic phenotype of transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder.
The Journal of urology - 1 Jun 1992
Shirahama T, Ikoma M, Muramatsu H, Muramatsu T, Ohi Y
Abstract excerpt
Expression of binding sites for fucose binding proteins (FBP) of Lotus tetragonolobus were immunohistochemically analyzed in surgically extirpated specimens from patients with transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder. The degree of expression of FBP binding sites in the primary cancerous region correlated with the occurrence of lymph node metastasis. Thus, lymph node metastases occurred in 15 of 34 cases with...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Carcinoma, Transitional Cell
- Female
- Fucose
- Humans
- Lectins
- Lewis X Antigen
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neoplasm Staging