Abnormalities and the implication of retinoblastoma locus and its protein product in head and neck cancers

Anticancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 641-644

  Yokoyama, Junkichi ^a,b   Shiga, Kiyoto ^a,b   Sasano, Hironobu ^a   Suzuki, Mamoru ^a   Takasaka, Tomonori ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Miyagi Cancer Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Immunohistochemistry; LOH; Rb

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENES, RETINOBLASTOMA; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MAXILLARY NEOPLASMS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029899057     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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