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Urokinase system expression in gastric carcinoma: prognostic impact in an independent patient series and first evidence of predictive value in preoperative biopsy and intestinal metaplasia specimens.
Cancer - 1 Mar 2006
Beyer Bianca C M, Heiss Markus Maria, Simon Erich H, Gruetzner Klaus-Uwe, Babic Rudolf, Jauch Karl-Walter, Schildberg Friedrich-Wilhelm, Allgayer Heike
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BACKGROUND: The prognostic relevance of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (u-PA), u-PA receptor (u-PAR), and plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) in gastric carcinoma was demonstrated in an independent patient series. To the authors' knowledge,the roles of these activators as predictors o...
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