Optimizing the APC gene mutation analysis in archival colorectal tumor tissue

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-19

  Poncin, Jacques ^a   Mulkens, Judith ^b   Arends, Jan Willem ^b   De Goeij, Anton F P M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adenomas; Carcinomas; Formalin fixed; Paraffin embedded; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN; PROTEINASE K;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; OPTICAL DENSITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, NEOPLASM; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; GENES, APC; HUMANS; MUTATION; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033062315     PISSN: 10529551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019606-199903000-00003     Document Type: Article

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