Analysis of β-catenin gene mutations in pancreatic tumors

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Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 544-548

  Gerdes, Berthold ^a   Ramaswamy, Annette ^a   Simon, Babette ^a   Pietsch, Torsten ^b   Bastian, Daniel ^a   Kersting, Michael ^a   Moll, Roland ^a   Bartsch, Detlef ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

catenin; catenin Tcf pathway; CTNNB1; Pancreatic tumor

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BETA CATENIN; CADHERINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; EXONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MUTATION; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032700298     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000007704     Document Type: Article

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