Expression of the prolactin gene in normal and neoplastic human breast tissues and human mammary cell lines: Promoter usage and alternative mRNA splicing

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 243-253

  Shaw Bruha, Carla M ^a   Pirrucello, Samuel J ^a   Shull, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Gene expression; Human; Mammary; Prolactin; Promoter; Transcription

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GROWTH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROLACTIN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0030749427     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005879103367     Document Type: Article

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