Application | Comment | Organism |
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medicine | napsin-A is a marker for lung adenocarcinoma, napsin-A is useful as a surrogate marker when encountering a poorly differentiated lung adenocarcinoma or an unknown primary tumor | Homo sapiens |
Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Homo sapiens | - |
- |
- |
Source Tissue | Comment | Organism | Textmining |
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kidney | napsin-A is strongly expressed in tubules from normal kidney tissue | Homo sapiens | - |
lung | napsin-A is strongly expressed in the normal lung tissue (macrophages and pneumocytes) | Homo sapiens | - |
lung adenocarcinoma cell | - |
Homo sapiens | - |
additional information | napsin-A is not detected in small cell carcinomas or in other carcinomas of nonlung origin except for renal cell carcinoma. Napsin-A expression is absent in control lymph node and gastrointestinal sections | Homo sapiens | - |
renal cell carcinoma cell | - |
Homo sapiens | - |
Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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napsin-A | - |
Homo sapiens |