Titin transcripts in thymomas

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 841, Issue , 1998, Pages 422-426

  Skeie, Geir Olve ^a   Freiburg, Alexandra ^b   Kolmerer, Bernhard ^b   Labeit, Siegfried ^b   Aarli, Johan A ^a   Gilhus, Nils Erik ^a  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONNECTIN; MESSENGER RNA; RYANODINE RECEPTOR;

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THYMOMA;

EID: 0031903620     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10958.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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