Biological stoichiometry in human cancer

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Elser, James J ^a   Kyle, Marcia M ^a   Smith, Marilyn S ^b   Nagy, John D ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Scottsdale Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DNA; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRY WEIGHT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MICROENVIRONMENT; RNA ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLON TUMOR; ECOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA; ECOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 41749107726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001028     Document Type: Article

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