Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction shows that treatment with interferon reduces the initially upregulated PRV-1 expression in polycythemia vera patients

Haematologica

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 349-351

  Fruehauf, Stefan ^a   Topoly, Julian ^a   Villalobos, Matthias ^a   Veldwijk, Marlon R ^b   Laufs, Stephanie ^b   Ho, Anthony D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; HYDROXYUREA;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; PHLEBOTOMY; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROMBOCYTHEMIA; UPREGULATION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; ISOANTIGENS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037344328     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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