Lack of specificity of albumin-mRNA-positive cells as a marker of circulating hepatoma cells

Hepatology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 896-899

  Müller, Christian ^a   Petermann, Dagmar ^a   Pfeffel, Franz ^a   Oesterreicher, Christian ^a   Függer, Reinhard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CONCANAVALIN A; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 2; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CHRONICITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEPATOMA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM ALBUMIN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030951360     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510250418     Document Type: Article

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