Quantitative analysis of estrogen receptor-α and -β messenger RNA expression in human pancreatic cancers by real-time polymerase chain reaction

Cancer Letters

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 91-97

  Iwao, Kyoko ^a   Miyoshi, Yasuo ^a   Ooka, Masaru ^a   Ishikawa, Osamu ^b   Ohigashi, Hiroaki ^b   Kasugai, Tsutomu ^b   Egawa, Chiyomi ^a   Noguchi, Shinzaburo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor ; Estrogen receptor ; Pancreatic cancer; Real time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HORMONE DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN VARIANT; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

ADULT; AGED; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035840445     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(01)00563-8     Document Type: Article

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