Ras mutations are rare in solitary cold and toxic thyroid nodules

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 241-248

  Krohn, Knut ^a   Reske, Alexander ^b   Ackermann, Frank ^a   Müller, Anke ^c   Paschke, Ralf ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c III Medical Department   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; DNA; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; EXON; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; ONCOGENE H RAS; ONCOGENE K RAS; ONCOGENE N RAS; ONCOGENE RAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; SOMATIC MUTATION; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID TUMOR; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; CLONE CELLS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; THYROID NODULE; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0034828723     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2001.01283.x     Document Type: Article

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