Novel mutations of neurofibromatosis type 1 gene in small cell lung cancers

Surgery Today

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 323-327

  Furukawa, Kenichi ^a,c   Yanai, Noboru ^b   Fujita, Michiya ^a   Harada, Yukio ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b National Seiranso Hospital   (Japan)

^c University of Tokyo   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Mutation; Neurofibromatosis type 1 gene; Small cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DNA; GUANINE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; NEUROFIBROMIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CODON; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADENOMA; AGED; CARCINOMA, LARGE CELL; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENES, NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0038027257     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950300074     Document Type: Article

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