Human brain tumor O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase mRNA and its significance as an indicator of selective chloroethylnitrosourea chemotherapy

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 420-425

  Mineura, Katsuyoshi ^a   Yanagisawa, Toshiharu ^a   Watanabe, Katsuo ^a   Kowada, Masayoshi ^a   Yasui, Nobuyuki ^b  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN AND BLOOD VESSELS AKITA   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHLOROETHYLNITROSOUREA; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DRUG SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARMUSTINE; DNA REPAIR; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MENINGIOMA; METHYLTRANSFERASES; NEURILEMMOMA; O(6)-METHYLGUANINE-DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0029829167     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19961021)69:5<420::AID-IJC12>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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