Expression and identification of aberrant c-kit transcripts in human cancer cells

Cancer Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 257-261

  Takaoka, Akinori ^a   Toyota, Minoru ^a   Hinoda, Yuji ^a   Itoh, Fumio ^a   Mita, Hiroaki ^a   Kakiuchi, Hideki ^a   Adachi, Massaki ^a   Imai, Kohsoh ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aberrant transcript; Alternate splicing; Gastrointestinal and hematopoietic tumor cells

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; COLON CARCINOMA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTO ONCOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030907483     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(97)04746-0     Document Type: Article

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