Detection of AFP mRNA-expressing cells in the peripheral blood for prediction of HCC recurrence after living donor liver transplantation

Transplant International

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 576-582

  Marubashi, Shigeru ^a   Dono, Keizo ^a   Nagano, Hiroaki ^a   Sugita, Yukari ^a   Asaoka, Tadafumi ^a   Hama, Naoki ^a   Miyamoto, Atsushi ^a   Takeda, Yutaka ^a   Umeshita, Koji ^a   Monden, Morito ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alpha fetoprotein mRNA; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver transplantation; Prediction; Real time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; Tumor recurrence

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; BLOOD CELLS; BLOOD VESSELS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 34249890236     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2007.00480.x     Document Type: Article

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