The Ret proto-oncogene in the WAG/Rij rat strain: An animal model for inherited C-cell carcinoma?

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 215-221

  De Miguel, M ^a   Fernandez Santos J M ^a   Trigo Sanchez I ^a   Matera, I ^b   Ceccherini, I ^b   Martin I ^a   Romeo, G ^c   Galera Davidson, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

C cell carcinoma; MTC; PCR SSCP; Proto oncogene; Rat; Ret; Thyroid; WAG Rij

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN RET;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO ONCOGENE; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; THYROID C CELL CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXONS; FEMALE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038162376     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367703766453065     Document Type: Article

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