Glucocorticoid receptor gene mutations in leukemic cells acquired in vitro and in vivo

Cancer Research

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2056-2062

  Hillmann, Andrew G ^a,c   Ramdas, Jyoti ^a   Multanen, Kirsi ^a,d   Norman, Michael R ^b   Harmon, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^d Finnzymes Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL; NONSENSE MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LYMPH NODES; MUTATION; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034032191     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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