CK20 gene expression: Technical limits for the detection of circulating tumor cells

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3 A, 1999, Pages 2073-2078

  Champelovier, Pierre ^a   Mongelard, Fabien ^a   Seigneurin, Daniel ^a,b  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSTITUT ALBERT BONNIOT   (France)

Author keywords

CK20 mRNA specificity; Micrometastasis; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 20; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BONE MARROW; CARCINOMA; ENDOTHELIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; KERATIN-20; LEUKEMIA; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; NEOPLASMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032781315     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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