Reproducibility of detection of tyrosinase and MART-1 transcripts in the peripheral blood of melanoma patients: A quality control study using real-time quantitative RT-PCR

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 80, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 883-891

  De Vries, T J ^a,b   Fourkour, A ^a   Punt, C J A ^a   Van De Locht, L T F ^a   Wobbes, T ^a   Van Den Bosch, S ^a   De Rooij, M J M ^a   Mensink, E J B M ^a   Ruiter, D J ^a   Van Muijen, G N P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Circulating cancer cells; MelanA MART 1; Melanoma; Quantitative RT PCR; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MELAN A; MELANOCYTIC LINEAGE MARKER; MESSENGER RNA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PORPHOBILINOGEN DEAMINASE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLBILANE SYNTHASE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032896433     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6690436     Document Type: Article

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