Neuron-specific Hel-N1 and HuD as novel molecular markers of neuroblastoma: A correlation of HuD messenger RNA levels with favorable prognostic features

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1859-1865

  Ball, N Sharie ^a   King, Peter H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NEUROBLASTOMA; ONCOGENE C MYB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL TIME;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HU PARANEOPLASTIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEURONS; PROGNOSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

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