Limitations in the use of glutathione S-transferase p1 in urine as a marker for bladder cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5 B, 1998, Pages 3771-3772

  Lafuente, Amalia ^a   Rodriguez, Antonio ^b   Gibanel, Roser ^b   Lafuente, M Jose ^b   Alonso, Montserrat ^a   Molina, Rafael ^b   Ballesta, Antonio ^b   Carretero, Pablo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Cytology; Glutathione S transferase; Haematuria; Tumour marker

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASE PI; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031647604     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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