Thymidylate Synthase Gene and Protein Expression Correlate and Are Associated with Response to 5-Fluorouracil in Human Colorectal and Gastric Tumors

Cancer Research

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 1407-1412

  Danenberg, Peter V ^b   Leichman, Lawrence ^b   Lenz, Heinz Josef ^b   Leichman, Cynthia G ^b   Danenberg, Kathleen D ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; STOMACH CANCER;

ACTINS; ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

EID: 0028940399     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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