Activated ras Oncogenes in Human Thyroid Cancers

Cancer Research

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 1988, Pages 4459-4463

  Lemoine, Nick R ^a   Mayall, Edward S ^a   Wyllie, Fiona ^a   Farr, Christine J ^a   Hughes, David ^b   Padua, Rose Anne ^b   Thurston, Valerie ^b   Williams, E Dilwyn ^b   Wynford Thomas, David ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; ONCOGENE H RAS; ONCOGENE K RAS; ONCOGENE N RAS; ONCOGENE RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CARCINOMA;

ANIMAL; GENES, RAS; HUMAN; MICE; MUTATION; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0023773073     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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