Overexpression of the Wilms' tumor gene WT1 in primary thyroid cancer

Cancer Science

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 606-611

  Oji, Yusuke ^a   Miyoshi, Yasuo ^a   Koga, Satoko ^a   Nakano, Yoko ^a   Ando, Akiko ^a   Nakatsuka, Shin Ichi ^a   Ikeba, Ai ^a   Takahashi, Eigo ^a   Sakaguchi, Nao ^a   Yokota, Asumi ^a   Hosen, Naoki ^a   Ikegame, Kazuhiro ^a   Kawakami, Manabu ^a   Tsuboi, Akihiro ^a   Oka, Yoshihiro ^a   Ogawa, Hiroyasu ^a   Aozasa, Katsuyuki ^a   Noguchi, Shinzaburo ^a   Sugiyama, Haruo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; WT1 PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKEMIA CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYROID CANCER; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; WILD TYPE;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, WILMS TUMOR; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYROID NEOPLASMS; WILMS TUMOR; WT1 PROTEINS;

EID: 0041561051     PISSN: 13479032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2003.tb01490.x     Document Type: Article

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