MMTV-like sequences in human breast cancer: A fluorescent PCR/laser microdissection approach

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 209, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 436-444

  Zammarchi, F ^a,b   Pistello, M ^a   Piersigilli, A ^a   Murr, R ^a   Di Cristofano, C ^a   Naccarato, A G ^a   Bevilacqua, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescent PCR; HMTV; Human breast cancer; Microdissection; MMTV

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER TISSUE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; FROZEN SECTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; LASER MICRODISSECTION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROVIRUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, NEOPLASM; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENES, ENV; HUMANS; LASERS; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS, MOUSE; MICRODISSECTION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 33746866770     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: 10969896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/path.1997     Document Type: Article

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