Thymidylate synthase expression correlates closely with E2F1 expression in colon cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2707-2711

  Kasahara, Mitsuko ^a   Takahashi, Yasuo ^a   Nagata, Toshihito ^a   Asai, Satoshi ^a   Eguchi, Teruo ^a   Ishii, Yukimoto ^a   Fujii, Masashi ^a   Ishikawa, Koichi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIBRATION; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; E2F TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; E2F1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, NEOPLASM; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DP1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

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