Detection of K-ras mutations in the plasma DNA of pancreatic cancer patients

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 56-60

  Uemura, Takanori ^a   Hibi, Kenji ^a   Kaneko, Tetsuya ^a   Takeda, Shin ^a   Inoue, Soichiro ^a   Okochi, Osamu ^a   Nagasaka, Tetsuro ^b   Nakao, Akimasa ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

K ras; Mismatch ligation assay; Pancreatic cancer

Indexed keywords

DNA; K RAS PROTEIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; ONCOGENE K RAS; PANCREAS CANCER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR VOLUME;

BASE PAIR MISMATCH; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 1142275321     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-003-1245-1     Document Type: Article

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