Analysis of the c-kit gene in patients with slow transit constipation [2]

Gut

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1207-1208

  Tong, W D ^a   Liu, B H ^a   Zhang, L Y ^a   Zhang, S B ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NEURTURIN; PROTEIN RET; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

CANCER SCREENING; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON RESECTION; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONSTIPATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; FLUORESCENCE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; INTRON; LETTER; MARKER GENE; MULTIFACTORIAL GENETIC DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT;

EID: 33746172165     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2006.094953     Document Type: Letter

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