Quantification of human Alu sequences by real-time PCR - An improved method to measure therapeutic efficacy of anti-metastatic drugs in human xenotransplants

Clinical and Experimental Metastasis

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 571-582

  Schneider, Tanja ^a   Osl, Franz ^a   Friess, Thomas ^a   Stockinger, Hubertus ^a   Scheuer, Werner V ^a  

^a ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alu sequences; LightCycler system; Metastasis; PCR; Real time PCR; Xenografts

Indexed keywords

ANTIMETASTATIC AGENT; FLUOROURACIL; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR; PACLITAXEL; RO 282653; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ALU SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG CANCER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TUMOR CELL; XENOGRAFT;

ALU ELEMENTS; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA, NEOPLASM; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, SCID; NEOPLASMS; PACLITAXEL; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PIPERAZINES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYRIMIDINES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 0036458420     PISSN: 02620898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020992411420     Document Type: Article

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