Semiquantification of circulating hepatocellular carcinoma cells by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 628-633

  Wong, I H N ^a   Leung, T ^a   Ho, S ^a   Lau, W Y ^a   Chan, M ^a   Johnson, P J ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Albumin mRNA; Circulating HCC cells; Metastasis; fetoprotein mRNA

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CANCER CELL; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0030807169     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1997.436     Document Type: Article

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