Dan-sheng Lei, Jing Yu, Xian-li Tong, Ming-wei Wang, Kun Wang, Hu Chen
OBJECTIVE: To explore the clinical significance of cytokeratin 19 fragments test in the diagnosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. METHODS: The study included 102 cases of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, 90 cases of nasal polyp/nasopharyngitis, and 150 healthy individuals. RT-PCR was used to detect CK19 mRNA expression and Western blot to detect CK19 fragment protein expression in tissues of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Expression of CK19-2G2 was examined by immunohistochemistry...
July 2012: Zhonghua Bing Li Xue za Zhi Chinese Journal of Pathology