A realistic approach to the sensitivity of PCR-DGGE and its application as a sensitive tool for the detection of clonality in cutaneous T-cell proliferations

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 122-127

  Meyer, J C ^a   Hassam, S ^a   Dummer, R ^a   Muletta, S ^a   Dobbeling U ^a   Dommann, S N W ^a   Burg, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cutaneous T cell lymphoma (CTCL); Detection of clonality; Early diagnosis; Polymerase chain reaction (PCR); T cell receptor gamma (TCR gamma)

Indexed keywords

DNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATINOCYTE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEZARY SYNDROME; SKIN; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; T LYMPHOCYTE;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONE CELLS; DNA, NEOPLASM; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; LEUKEMIA, T-CELL, ACUTE; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL, CUTANEOUS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEZARY SYNDROME; SKIN NEOPLASMS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR STEM CELLS;

EID: 0031010239     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.1997.tb00158.x     Document Type: Article

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