Activation of the β-catenin gene by interstitial deletions involving exon 3 in primary colorectal carcinomas without adenomatous polyposis coli mutations

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1021-1026

  Iwao, Kyoko ^a   Nakamori, Syoji ^a,b   Kameyama, Masao ^b   Imaoka, Shingi ^b   Kinoshita, Moritoshi ^c   Fukui, Takafumi ^c   Ishiguro, Shingo ^b   Nakamura, Yusuke ^a,d   Miyoshi, Yasuo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^c OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; RNA; SERINE; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; COLON POLYPOSIS; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BETA CATENIN; CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, APC; HUMANS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0032032657     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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