Editorial: RET/PTC rearrangement - A link between Hashimoto's thyroiditis and thyroid cancer...or not

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2040-2042

  Nikiforov, Yuri E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN PATCHED; PROTEIN PATCHED 1; PROTEIN PATCHED3; PROTEIN RET; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RET PTC FUSION ONCOPROTEINS, HUMAN; RET-PTC FUSION ONCOPROTEINS, HUMAN;

CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; THYROID CANCER; THYROID GLAND; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; NOTE; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID TUMOR;

CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33744952447     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2006-0791     Document Type: Editorial

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