Human neuroblastomas with unfavorable biologies express high levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor mRNA and a variety of its variants

Cancer Letters

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 51-60

  Aoyama, Mineyoshi ^a   Asai, Kiyofumi ^a   Shishikura, Tomotane ^b   Kawamoto, Takemasa ^b   Miyachi, Taishi ^a   Yokoi, Takashi ^a   Togari, Hajime ^a   Wada, Yoshiro ^a   Kato, Taiji ^a   Nakagawara, Akira ^b  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b CHIBA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Neuroblastoma; Real time detection polymerase chain reaction; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; TRKB (NTRK2)

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; NEUROBLASTOMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE C MYB; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGE FACTORS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROBLASTOMA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0035836071     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(00)00715-1     Document Type: Article

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