Detection of epidermal growth factor receptor mRNA in peripheral blood: A new marker of circulating neoplastic cells in bladder cancer patients

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 577-583

  Gazzaniga, Paola ^a   Gandini, Orietta ^a   Giuliani, Laura ^a   Magnanti, Massimo ^a   Gradilone, Angela ^a   Silvestri, Ida ^a   Gianni, Walter ^b   Gallucci, Michele ^c   Frati, Luigi ^a,d   Aglianò, Anna Maria ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c Ospedale Cristo Re   (Italy)

^d IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOKERATIN 19; CYTOKERATIN 20; DOXORUBICIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GEMCITABINE; MESSENGER RNA; METHOTREXATE; TUMOR MARKER; UROPLAKIN; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BLOOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TUMOR CELL; UROTHELIUM;

ADULT; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; CYSTITIS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; KERATIN-20; KERATINS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034907332     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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