Expression of variant forms of fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 mRNA in human breast carcinomas

International Journal of Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1191-1196

  Penault Llorca, Frederique ^a,b   Parc, Patricia ^a   Coulier, François ^c   Bertucci, François ^a   Jacquemier, Jocelyne ^b   Birnbaum, Daniel ^a,b,c  

^a Laboratoire de Biologie des Tumeurs   (France)

^b INSTITUT PAOLI CALMETTES   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

breast cancer; growth factor; PCR; receptor; tyrosine kinase

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0030938066     PISSN: 10196439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijo.10.6.1191     Document Type: Article

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