Oncogenic Rearrangements of the RET Proto-Oncogene in Papillary Thyroid Carcinomas from Children Exposed to the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident

Cancer Research

Volumn 55, Issue 23, 1995, Pages 5617-5620

  Fugazzola, Laura ^a   Pilotti, Silvana ^b   Pinchera, Aldo ^a   Vorontsova, Tatiana V ^c   Mondellini, Piera ^b   Bongarzone, Italia ^b   Greco, Angela ^b   Astakhova, Larisa ^c   Butti, Marta G ^b   Demidchik, Eugene P ^d   Pacini, Furio ^a   Pierotti, Marco A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c Research Institute of Radiation Medicine   (Belarus)

^d Thyroid Cancer Center   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFECTION; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

3T3 CELLS; ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENES; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, TRKA; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TRANSFECTION; UKRAINE;

EID: 0028821932     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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