Detection of breast cancer cell contamination in leukapheresis product by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 517-523

  Leone, F ^a   Perissinotto, E ^a   Viale, A ^a   Cavalloni, G ^a   Taraglio, S ^b   Capaldi, A ^a   Piacibello, W ^a   Torchio, B ^b   Aglietta, M ^a  

^a CANDIOLO CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b MAURIZIANO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Leukaphereses; Quantitative PCR; Tumor cell detection

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; GLOBIN; MAMMAGLOBIN; MASPIN; MESSENGER RNA; ONCOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BONE MARROW; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKAPHERESIS; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; ONCOGENE NEU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BLOOD; BONE MARROW; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; GENES, ERBB-2; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; LEUKAPHERESIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; SERPINS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UTEROGLOBIN;

EID: 0035065698     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1702815     Document Type: Article

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