High expression of connective tissue growth factor in pre-B acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 740-748

  Boag, Joanne M ^a   Beesley, Alex H ^a   Firth, Martin J ^a   Freitas, Joseph R ^a   Ford, Jette ^a   Brigstock, David R ^b   De Klerk, Nicholas H ^a   Kees, Ursula R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia; Connective tissue growth factor; Leukaemia; Microarray; Paediatrics

Indexed keywords

CD19 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PBX1;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKEMOGENESIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; FETAL BLOOD; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PRECURSOR B-CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA;

EID: 34548149411     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2007.06739.x     Document Type: Article

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