Improved polymerase chain reaction detection of clonally rearranged T- cell receptor β chain genes

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 138-145

  Zemlin, Michael ^a   Hummel, Michael ^a   Anagnostopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Stein, Harald ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gene rearrangement; Polymerase chain reaction; T cell receptor

Indexed keywords

DNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; T CELL LYMPHOMA;

CLONE CELLS; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR BETA; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J-CHAINS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL, CUTANEOUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SEZARY SYNDROME; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031726746     PISSN: 10529551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019606-199806000-00003     Document Type: Article

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