| Literature DB >> 8829184 |
Y Hamanaka1, S Hamanaka, M Suzuki.
Abstract
CA 19-9 ganglioside antigen was extracted from the tumors of 16 patients with pancreatic cancer and the antigen was confirmed by mass spectrometry to be a sialyl Lewis(a) ganglioside. Ductal adenocarcinomas from four patients, two whose Lewis blood phenotype was Le(a- b-), one with undifferentiated carcinoma, and one with an acinar cell carcinoma, did not contain detectable amounts of sialyl Le(a) ganglioside. A significant correlation was found between serum CA 19-9 levels and the recovery of ganglioside antigen from respective tumors, but not tumor burden.Entities:
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Year: 1996 PMID: 8829184 DOI: 10.1097/00006676-199608000-00007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Pancreas ISSN: 0885-3177 Impact factor: 3.327