The RET/PTC3 oncogene: Metastatic solid-type papillary carcinomas in murine thyroids

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 5523-5528

  Powell Jr , Daniel J ^a   Russell, John ^a   Nibu, Ken Ichi ^a,d   Li, Guoqi ^e   Rhee, Ed ^a   Liao, Mickey ^a   Goldstein, Michael ^a   Keane, William M ^a   Santoro, Massimo ^b   Fusco, Alfredo ^c   Rothstein, Jay L ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e BLSB 909 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; ONCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THYROID FOLLICLE CELL; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CATTLE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ONCOGENES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 3643067689     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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