VASA is a specific marker for both normal and malignant human germ cells

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 159-166

  Zeeman, Anne Marie ^a   Stoop, Hans ^a   Boter, Marjan ^a   Gillis, Ad J M ^a   Castrillon, Diego H ^b   Oosterhuis, J Wolter ^a   Looijenga, Leendert H J ^a  

^a JOSEPHINE NEFKENS INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN VASA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSGERMINOMA; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; GERM CELL TUMOR; GONADOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL TUMOR; MALE; MARKER GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINOMA; SPERMATOGENESIS; TERATOMA; TESTIS TUMOR; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YOLK SAC TUMOR;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELLS, CULTURED; GERM CELLS; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0036174406     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.3780408     Document Type: Article

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