The diagnosis and therapy of brain tumours

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 193-196

  Nowak, Stanislaw ^a   Zukiel, Ryszard ^a   Barciszewska, Anna Maria ^a   Barciszewski, Jan ^b  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

5 metylcytosine; Brain tumours; Epigenetics; RNA interference

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; ADENOSINE; CELL DNA; CYTOSINE; DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GUANOSINE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; LIPID; MESSENGER RNA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; THYMIDINE;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; DEAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GLIA CELL; GLIOBLASTOMA; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PROGNOSIS; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 27844482949     PISSN: 16414640     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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