Original Article
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World J Gastroenterol. Mar 21, 2013; 19(11): 1718-1727
Published online Mar 21, 2013. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v19.i11.1718
Cancer detection by ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal esterase L1 methylation in pancreatobiliary fluids
Norihiro Kato, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Yasushi Adachi, Hirokazu Ohashi, Hiroaki Taniguchi, Hiromu Suzuki, Mayumi Nakazawa, Hiroyuki Kaneto, Shigeru Sasaki, Kohzoh Imai, Yasuhisa Shinomura
Norihiro Kato, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Yasushi Adachi, Hirokazu Ohashi, Mayumi Nakazawa, Shigeru Sasaki, Yasuhisa Shinomura, First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo 060-8543, Japan
Hiroaki Taniguchi, Kohzoh Imai, The Section of Antibody, Vaccine and Molecular Targeted Therapy Research, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
Hiromu Suzuki, Department of Molecular Biology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo 060-8556, Japan
Hiroyuki Kaneto, Division of Gastroenterology, Muroran City General Hospital, Muroran 051-8512, Japan
Author contributions: Kato N and Taniguchi H performed experiments and analyzed the data; Yamamoto H designed the research, performed experiments, analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript; Adachi Y, Suzuki H, Kaneto H and Sasaki S analyzed the data; Ohashi H and Nakazawa M performed experiments; Imai K and Shinomura Y edited the manuscript.
Supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (to Yamamoto H and Shinomura Y)
Correspondence to: Hiroyuki Yamamoto, MD, FJSIM, PhD, First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, S-1, W-16, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-8543, Japan. h-yama@sapmed.ac.jp
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Received: September 14, 2012
Revised: January 11, 2013
Accepted: January 23, 2013
Published online: March 21, 2013
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