Limitations of the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction method for the detection of carcinoembryonic antigen-positive tumor cells in peripheral blood

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2141-2146

  Ko, Yon ^a   Klinz, Michael ^a   Totzke, Gudrun ^a   Gouni Berthold, Ioanna ^a   Sachinidis, Agapios ^a   Vetter, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; COLON CANCER; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TUMOR CELL;

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031716503     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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