Mutations and expression of the ras family genes in leukemias

Stem Cells

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 725-729

  Gougopoulou, Dora M ^a,b   Kiaris, Hippokratis ^a,b   Ergazaki, Mary ^a,b   Anagnostopoulos, Nikolaos I ^c   Grigoraki, Vasiliki ^c   Spandidos, Demetrios A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA; MONONUCLEAR CELL; ONCOGENE H RAS; ONCOGENE K RAS; ONCOGENE RAS; POINT MUTATION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0029826228     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stem.140725     Document Type: Article

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