RT-PCR suggests human skeletal muscle origin of alveolar soft-part sarcoma

Oncology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 319-323

  Nakano, Hirotaka ^a   Tateishi, Akio ^b   Imamura, Tetsuo ^b   Miki, Hiroshi ^c   Ohno, Tohgo ^d   Moue, Toshiko ^b   Sekiguchi, Mayumi ^b   Unno, Kazutoshi ^b   Abe, Satoshi ^b   Matsushita, Takashi ^b   Katoh, Yoshiharu ^a   Itoh, Tatsuo ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Teikyo University   (Japan)

^d Ichihara Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alveolar soft part sarcoma; Histogenesis; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction Complementary DNA; Skeletal muscle related mRNA

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MYOGENIN; MYOSIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ALVEOLAR SOFT PART SARCOMA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 0034062772     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000012119     Document Type: Article

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