Constitutive expression of the Wilms tumor suppressor gene (WT1) in renal cell carcinoma

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 182-188

  Campbell, Christine E ^a   Kuriyan, Nishi R ^a   Rackley, Raymond R ^a   Caulfield, Michael J ^a,b   Tubbs, Raymond ^a   Finke, James ^a   Williams, Bryan R G ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLOMERULUS EPITHELIUM; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY TUBULE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; DNA, NEOPLASM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, WILMS TUMOR; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; RNA, NEOPLASM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; WT1 PROTEINS;

EID: 0031681336     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19981005)78:2<182::AID-IJC11>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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