A useful protocol for analyses of mutations of the epidermal growth factor receptor gene

Oncology Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1503-1505

  Liu, Dage ^a   Nakano, Jun ^a   Ueno, Masaki ^b   Masuya, Daiki ^a   Nakashima, Takashi ^a   Yokomise, Hiroyasu ^a   Yube, Kouichi ^b   Huang, Cheng Long ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidermal growth factor receptor; Mutation; Non small cell lung cancer; Paraffin embedded materials

Indexed keywords

DNA; PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO ONCOGENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DNA, NEOPLASM; GENES, ERBB-1; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 39049177192     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.15.6.1503     Document Type: Article

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