The BAX gene, the promoter of apoptosis, is mutated in genetically unstable cancers of the colorectum, stomach, and endometrium

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1071-1074

  Ouyang, Hong ^a   Furukawa, Toru ^a   Abe, Tadayoshi ^a   Kato, Yo ^b   Horii, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN BAX; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; STOMACH CANCER;

EID: 0031895510     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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