Molecular Pathology of Pancreatic Cancer: In Quest of Tumor Suppressor Genes

Pancreas

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 253-256

  Furukawa, Toru ^a   Horii, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

18q; Comparative genomic hybridization; DUSP6 MKP 3; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Loss of heterozygosity; Tumor suppressor gene

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

APOPTOSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER INHIBITION; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME 12Q; CHROMOSOME 17P; CHROMOSOME 18Q; CHROMOSOME 1P; CHROMOSOME 20Q; CHROMOSOME 21Q; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CHROMOSOME 8Q; CHROMOSOME 9P; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA DETERMINATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE-PHOSPHATASE;

EID: 1842535106     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006676-200404000-00007     Document Type: Review

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