A simple method to reveal possible RAS mutations in DNA of urinary sediment cells

Journal of Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 201-204

  Cristaudo, Alfonso ^a   Vivaldi, Agnese ^a   Guglielmi, Giovanni ^a   Sensales, Graziana ^a   Ottenga, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ras mutations in urinary sediment cells

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; DNA; HYDROCARBON;

BLADDER TUMOR; CODON; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ONCOGENE H RAS; ONCOGENE RAS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SMOKE; URINE SEDIMENT;

CARCINOGENS; CODON; DNA; GENES, RAS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; URINE;

EID: 0030866547     PISSN: 07318898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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