The expression of PAX8-PRARγ rearrangements is not specific to follicular thyroid carcinoma [1]

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 280-282

  Nakabashi, Cláudia C D ^a   Guimarães, Gustavo S ^a   Michaluart Jr , Pedro ^b   Ward, Laura S ^c   Cerutti, Janete M ^a   Maciel, Rui M B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX8; CELL RECEPTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PAX8 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONCOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID HYPERPLASIA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID TUMOR; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA; ADENOMA; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

ADENOMA; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY, FOLLICULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 4143052369     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2004.02061.x     Document Type: Letter

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