Application | Comment | Organism |
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diagnostics | cathepsin B is an important biomarker for the stratification of glioblastoma patients with respect to survival | Homo sapiens |
Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Homo sapiens | - |
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Source Tissue | Comment | Organism | Textmining |
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astrocyte | - |
Homo sapiens | - |
glioblastoma cell | the most frequent malignant brain tumor in adults, increased expression of cathepsin B compared to healthy astrocytes, immunohistochemic and expression analysis, overview | Homo sapiens | - |
General Information | Comment | Organism |
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malfunction | cathepsin B overexpression in glioblastoma is correlated with a short survival of the patient | Homo sapiens |
physiological function | proteases play a major role in the invasion process with correlations between glioma grading, survival and protease expression. Cathepsin B is involved in extracellular matrix degradation in glioblastomas, and in invasion and angiogenesis, overview | Homo sapiens |