How useful are housekeeping genes? Variable expression in melanoma metastases

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1481-1487

  Kågedal, Bertil ^a   Farnebäck, Malin ^a   Håkansson, Annika ^b   Gustafsson, Bertil ^a   Håkansson, Leif ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

glucuronidase; 2 microglobulin; Endogenous control; Hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase; Normalization; Quantitative reverse transcription PCR

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2B INTERFERON; BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; CISPLATIN; DACARBAZINE; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE SECTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GENES, ESSENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 35648945416     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2007.303     Document Type: Article

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