Lightcycler technology for the quantitation of bcr/abl fusion transcripts

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 3171-3174

  Kreuzer, Karl Anton ^a   Lass, Ulrich ^a   Bohn, Alexander ^a   Landt, Olfert ^b   Schmidt, Christian Andreas ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TIB MOLBIOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCR ABL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TECHNIQUE;

CALIBRATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FUSION PROTEINS, BCR-ABL; HUMANS; K562 CELLS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033168968     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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