Aberrant hypermethylation at the bcl-2 locus at 18q21 in human lung cancers

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1886-1891

  Nagatake, Masaaki ^a,b   Osada, Hirotaka ^a   Kondo, Masashi ^a   Uchida, Kosaku ^a   Nishio, Masayuki ^a   Shimokata, Kaoru ^b   Takahashi, Toshitada ^a   Takahashi, Takashi ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME 18Q; CHROMOSOME NOR; DNA METHYLATION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARCINOMA, LARGE CELL; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; DNA, NEOPLASM; EXONS; GENES, RETINOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; METHYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; PROTO-ONCOGENES; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

EID: 0029970218     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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