A new strategy for the diagnosis of MAGE-expressing cancers

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 266, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 79-86

  Park, Jong Wook ^a   Kwon, Taeg Kyu ^a   Kim, In Ho ^a   Sohn, Soo Sang ^a   Kim, You Sah ^a   Kim, Chun Il ^a   Bae, Ok Suk ^a   Lee, Kyung Seop ^b   Lee, Kang Dae ^c   Lee, Cheong Sam ^c   Chang, Hee Kyung ^c   Choe, Byung Kil ^c   Ahn, Su Yul ^d   Jeon, Chang Ho ^e  

^a Keimyung University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Dongguk University   (South Korea)

^c Kosin University   (South Korea)

^d Yeungnam University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e Catholic University of Daegu   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cancer diagnosis; MAGE; Nested RT PCR

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MELANOMA ANTIGEN; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER TISSUE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA SEQUENCE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BLOOD CELLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, NEOPLASM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0842320101     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(02)00105-9     Document Type: Article

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