A Rapid Polymerase Chain Reaction-based Technique for Detecting Clonal T-cell Receptor Gene Rearrangements in Cutaneous T-cell Lymphomas of both the αβ and γδ Varieties

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 121-126

  Yu, R C ^a   Alaibac, M ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cutaneous T cell lymphoma; Nondenaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; T cell receptor

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; T CELL LYMPHOMA;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONE CELLS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, ALPHA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, DELTA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, GAMMA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL, CUTANEOUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0029948204     PISSN: 10529551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019606-199606000-00007     Document Type: Article

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