Differential down-regulation of the UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1A locus is an early event in human liver and biliary cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 2979-2985

  Strassburg, Christian P ^a   Manns, Michael P ^b   Tukey, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; ISOENZYME;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CANCER; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER ADENOMA; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

BASE SEQUENCE; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0030790857     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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