Altered estrogen receptor α and β messenger RNA expression during human breast tumorigenesis

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 3197-3201

  Leygue, Etienne ^a   Dotzlaw, Helmut ^a   Watson, Peter H ^a   Murphy, Leigh C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER GROWTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONAL CARCINOGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RNA TRANSLATION;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032145441     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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