Low incidence of the stimulatory G protein α-subunit mutations in autonomously functioning thyroid adenomas in Japan

Thyroid

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 195-199

  Tanaka, Kunihiko ^a   Nagayama, Yuji ^a   Takeshita, Akira ^a   Namba, Hiroyuki ^a   Yamashita, Shunichi ^a   Niwa, Masami ^a   Nagataki, Shigenobu ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; THYROID ADENOMA;

ADENOMA; CODON; DNA; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; JAPAN; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029782050     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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