| Literature DB >> 14758077 |
Frédéric van den Brûle1, Stèphane Califice, Vincent Castronovo.
Abstract
A large body of literature has examined and described galectin expression in cancer. Discrepancies have been observed in the reported data, which hampered clear understanding of the expression profiles. This relates to the use of different types of methods that evaluate either global or specific gene expression in heterogeneous cancer tissue samples, type of antibodies used in immunohistochemistry and procedures of comparison of gene expression. In this manuscript, we review the main data concerning expression of galectins in human cancer. Only galectin-1 and galectin-3, the most abundant and examined galectins, will be examined here.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 14758077 DOI: 10.1023/B:GLYC.0000014083.48508.6a
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Glycoconj J ISSN: 0282-0080 Impact factor: 2.916