Quantitation of Thymidylate Synthase, Dihydrofolate Reductase, and DT-Diaphorase Gene Expression in Human Tumors Using the Polymerase Chain Reaction

Cancer Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 108-116

  Horikoshi, Tetsuro ^a   Danenberg, Kathleen D ^a   Stadlbauer, Thomas H W ^a   Volkenandt, Matthias ^d   Shea, Luke C C ^a   Aigner, Karl ^b   Gustavsson, Bengt ^c   Leichman, Lawrence ^a   Frosing, Roland ^c   Ray, Margaret ^a   Gibson, Neil W ^a   Spears, C Paul ^a   Danenberg, Peter V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE (PHOSPHATE) DEHYDROGENASE (QUINONE); THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; TISSUE LEVEL;

ACTINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, NEOPLASM; FLUOROURACIL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; LEUCOVORIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAD(P)H DEHYDROGENASE (QUINONE); NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0026560328     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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