Expression of Truncated Pro-Opiomelanocortin Gene Transcript in Human Leukemia Cell Lines

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 399-405

  Murao, Koji ^a   Sato, Makoto ^a   Imachi, Hitomi ^a   Ohe, Hidemi ^a   Nagai, Masami ^a   Niimi, Michio ^a   Ishida, Toshihiko ^a   Takahara, Jiro ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACTH; Leukemia cells; Lymphocyte; POMC; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; CORTICOTROPIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINEAGE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; METABOLISM; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL LINEAGE; CONCANAVALIN A; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; LEUKEMIA; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032082907     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.45.399     Document Type: Article

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