K-ras mutation in greek patients with poorly and moderately differentiated tumours of the lower intestinal tract

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2B, 1997, Pages 1399-1404

  Troungos, Constantinos ^a   Valavanis, Christos ^b   Kapranos, Nikiforos ^c   Kittas, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Greece)

^c Ygheia Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; K ras oncogene; Mutation

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CODON; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; ONCOGENE K RAS; PATHOGENESIS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID; TRANSVERSE COLON;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION;

EID: 0030894181     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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