Expression of fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs) mRNA in human astrocytomas

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1996, Pages

  Yamada, Shoko M ^a   Bruner, Janet M ^b   Berger, Mitchel S ^a   Morrison, Richard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTROCYTOMA; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM STAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0029868825     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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