Tissue microarray analysis of EGFR gene amplification and gain in Bulgarian patients with colorectal cancer

Onkologie

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 198-200

  Petrova, Darinka ^a   Jankova, Renata ^a   Yosifova, Adelina ^a   Tzenova, Vasselina ^b   Dimova, Ivanka ^a   Toncheva, Draga ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ALEXANDROVSKA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Growth factor receptor, epidermal; Tissue microarray

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BULGARIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA DENATURATION; EGFR GENE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE NUMBER; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; TISSUE MICROARRAY; UPREGULATION;

BULGARIA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, ERBB-1; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 33646525614     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000092646     Document Type: Article

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