Development of a sensitive, specific reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction-based assay for epithelial tumour cells in effusions

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 79, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 416-422

  Sakaguchi, M ^a   Virmani, A K ^a,b   Ashfaq, R ^b   Rogers, T E ^b,c   Rathi, A ^a   Liu, Y ^a   Kodagoda, D ^a   Cunningham, H T ^a   Gazdar, A F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VA NORTH TEXAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokeratin 19; Effusion; Epithelial glycoprotein 2; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; REAGENT; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CELL SEPARATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOPATHOLOGY; EFFUSION; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERITONEUM EXUDATE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; TUMOR CELL;

ASCITIC FLUID; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032928322     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6690065     Document Type: Article

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