Is DD3 a new prostate-specific gene?

Anticancer Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1 A, 2003, Pages 305-308

  Gandini, Orietta ^a   Luci, Letizia ^a   Stigliano, Antonio ^a   Lucera, Rossana ^a   Di Silverio, Franco ^a   Toscano, Vincenzo ^a   Cardillo, Maria Rosaria ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; DD3 gene; Prostate cancer; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL DEATH; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0037236169     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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