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Midkine expression is correlated with an adverse prognosis and is down-regulated by p53 in oral squamous cell carcinoma.
International journal of oncology - 1 Oct 2010
Ota Kazutoshi, Fujimori Hiromi, Ueda Mitsuharu, Jono Hirofumi, Shinriki Satoru, Ota Tomoko, Sueyoshi Takanao, Taura Manabu, Taguma Ayaka, Kai Hirofumi, Shinohara Masanori, Ando Yukio
Abstract excerpt
Midkine (MK) expression has been documented to be inversely correlated with the prognosis of patients with various tumors, but the mechanism of this relationship has not been well characterized. Recent studies have also correlated p53 expression with prognosis of patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). We evaluated the relationship between MK expression and clinicopathological features of patients with...
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