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Heterogeneous Intermediate Phenotypes of Cancer Cells with Varying Ki-67-Positivity Rates, Including Histologically HCC-like and NEC-like Cells, in Liver MiNEN.
International journal of molecular sciences - 9 Apr 2026
Ohni Sumie, Nakanishi Yoko, Hirotani Yukari, Toyonaka Ryosuke, Aramaki Osamu, Okamura Yukiyasu, Masuda Shinobu, Makishima Makoto, Esumi Mariko
Abstract excerpt
Mixed hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)-neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC) is a major type of liver mixed neuroendocrine-non-neuroendocrine neoplasm (MiNEN). Primary liver NEC, which is very rare, is mostly associated with HCC rather than pure NEC. To characterize the cancer cell heterogeneity of the HCC and NEC components, we comprehensively analyzed the protein expression of three cancer cell biological markers (TERT,...
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