Expression of neurogenic basic helix-loop-helix genes in primitive neuroectodermal tumors

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 3526-3531

  Rostomily, Robert C ^a,c,d   Bermingham McDonogh, Olivia ^a   Berger, Mitchel S ^a   Tapscott, Stephen J ^a,b   Reh, Thomas A ^a   Olson, James M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKEMOGENESIS; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; METASTASIS; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOLID TUMOR; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HUMANS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030763055     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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