Evaluation of CD44 transcription variants in human digestive tract carcinomas and normal tissues

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-17

  Higashikawa, Koichiro ^a,b   Yokozaki, Hiroshi ^a   Ue, Teruyoshi ^a,b   Taniyama, Kiyomi ^c   Ishikawa, Takenori ^b   Tarin, David ^d   Tahara, Eiichi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Kure Mutual Aid Hospital   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD44V ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANTIGENS, CD44; BASE SEQUENCE; CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA PRIMERS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; RNA, MESSENGER; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029878197     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19960328)66:1<11::AID-IJC3>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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