Detection of pancreatic and gastric cancer cells in peripheral and portal blood by amplification of keratin 19 mRNA with reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 408-411

  Aihara, Tomohiko ^a,b   Noguchi, Shinzaburo ^a   Ishikawa, Osamu ^a   Furukawa, Hiroshi ^a   Hiratsuka, Masahiro ^a   Ohigashi, Hiroaki ^a   Nakamori, Shoji ^a   Monden, Morito ^b   Imaoka, Shingi ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; KERATIN 19; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH CANCER;

HUMANS; KERATINS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTAL VEIN; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030847094     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19970729)72:3<408::AID-IJC6>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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