Open AccessCan increased metabolic status be a grading tool for oral squamous cell carcinoma? A glucose transporter 1 immunoexpression study
Author(s) -
Anita Panda,
Anjan Bandyopadhyay,
Gouse Mohiddin,
Malvika Raghuvanshi,
Sanjay Kumar Sahoo,
Lipsa Bhuyan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
nigerian journal of surgery/nigerian journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7100
pISSN - 1117-6806
DOI - 10.4103/njs.njs_17_18
Subject(s) - grading (engineering) , immunohistochemistry , pathology , glucose transporter , basal cell , staining , medicine , monoclonal antibody , biology , antibody , immunology , ecology , insulin
Glucose transporter-1 (GLUT-1) is a GLUT protein whose expression is upregulated in malignant cells where enhanced uptake of glucose is observed.