[Immunohistochemical studies demonstrated that the three fibroblast activation markers (FAPalpha, Tn-C, alpha-SMA) are consistently expressed in the peritumoral and intratumoral stromal compartment of medullary thyroid carcinomas and expression of FAPalpha and Tn-C correlated with the degree of desmoplasia determined histologically (p=0.001 for FAPalpha and p<0.001 for Tn-C).]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE