[In order to characterize the desmoplastic response in thyroid cancers, we evaluated the expression pattern of three molecular markers of activated fibroblasts/myofibroblasts, namely, fibroblast activation protein alpha (FAPalpha), tenascin-C (Tn-C), and alpha-smooth muscle actin (alpha-SMA), as well as the endothelial markers endoglyx-1, CD34 and CD31 in a series of 28 metastatic and non-metastatic medullary thyroid cancers.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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