Mammaglobin B as a novel marker for detection of breast cancer micrometastases in axillary lymph nodes by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 137-140

  Aihara, Tomohiko ^a   Fujiwara, Yoshiyuki ^a   Ooka, Masaru ^a   Sakita, Isao ^a   Tamaki, Yasuhiro ^a   Monden, Morito ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Gene transcript; Micrometastasis; Molecular marker; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

MAMMAGLOBIN B; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UTEROGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UTEROGLOBIN;

EID: 0033427379     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006335817889     Document Type: Article

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