Peripheral blood tyrosinase messenger RNA detection and survival in malignant melanoma

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 590-594

  Kunter, Uta ^a   Buer, Jan ^a   Probst, Michael ^a   Duensing, Stefan ^a   Dallmann, Iris ^a   Grosse, Jens ^a   Kirchner, Hartmut ^a   Schluepen, Eva Maria ^b   Volkenandt, Matthias ^b   Ganser, Arnold ^a   Atzpodien, Jens ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NEOPLASM STAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 15844419538     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/88.9.590     Document Type: Article

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