Immunohistochemical Fingerprinting of the Network of Seven Adhesion/Growth-Regulatory Lectins in Human Skin and Detection of Distinct Tumour-Associated Alterations

Abstract

Article demonstration expression of seven galectins in normal human skin and in basal cell carcinoma. The main finding is the observation of accumulation of galectin-1 in stroma of all the tested tumors.

Keywords

• apoptosis
• galectin
• glycohistochemistry
• glycoprotein
• Integrin
• stroma
• sugar code
• neck squamous-cell
• galectin-7 p53-induced gene-1
• human neuroblastoma-cells
• enterocyte-like cells
• endogenous lectins
• in-vitro
• rt-pcr/immunohistochemistry
• hypopharyngeal cancer
• extracellular-matrix
• prognostic relevance