Detection of breast cancer cells in blood using immunomagnetic bead selection and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction

Molecular Diagnosis

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 149-155

  Luke, Scott ^a   Kaul, Karen ^a  

^a EVANSTON HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokeratin 19; GCDFP; Immunomagnetic selection

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 19; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TAMOXIFEN;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EPITHELIUM; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER CELL; CANCER GRADING; CELL SEPARATION; DNA CONTENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TARGET CELL;

EID: 0031660998     PISSN: 10848592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1084-8592(98)80033-7     Document Type: Article

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