The human KLK8 (neuropsin/ovasin) gene: Identification of two novel splice variants and its prognostic value in ovarian cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 806-811

  Magklara, Angeliki ^a   Scorilas, Andreas ^a   Katsaros, Dionyssios ^b   Massobrio, Marco ^b   Yousef, George M ^a   Fracchioli, Stefano ^b   Danese, Saverio ^c   Diamandis, Eleftherios P ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Division of Gynecological Oncology   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; KALLIKREIN; NEUROPSIN; PROTEIN KLK 8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY CANCER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; FEMALE; HUMANS; KALLIKREINS; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034896563     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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