Unusual retention of introns in CD44 gene transcripts in bladder cancer provides new diagnostic and clinical oncological opportunities

The Journal of Pathology

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 11-20

  Matsumura, Yasuhiro ^a   Sugiyama, Makoto ^a   Matsumura, Shoko ^a   Hayle, Allan J ^a   Robinson, Philip ^a   Smith, Joseph C ^b   Tarin, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cancer screening; defective mRNA editing; early cancer diagnosis; gene expression; introns

Indexed keywords

HERMES ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD44; BASE SEQUENCE; BLADDER NEOPLASMS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INTRONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029102116     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: 10969896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/path.1711770104     Document Type: Article

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