Quantitative evaluation of the expression of MAGE genes in tumors by limiting dilution of cDNA libraries

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 664-669

  Serrano, Alfonso ^a,b,c   Lethé, Bernard ^a,b   Delroisse, Jean Marc ^a,b   Lurquin, Christophe ^a,b   De Plaen, Etienne ^a,b   Brasseur, Francis ^a,b   Rimoldi, Donata ^d   Boon, Thierry ^a,b  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DNA LIBRARY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA;

ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PLACENTA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTIS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032734803     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19991126)83:5<664::AID-IJC16>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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