No evidence for mutations in the α- and β-catenin genes in human gastric and breast carcinomas

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-52

  Candidus, Sonja ^a   Bischoff, Petra ^a   Becker, Karl Friedrich ^a   Höfler, Heinz ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CATENIN; BETA CATENIN; CATENIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; UVOMORULIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER GROWTH; CELL ADHESION; CELL INVASION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; STOMACH CARCINOGENESIS; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

ALPHA CATENIN; BETA CATENIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0030051927     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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