Heterogeneity in the distribution of RET/PTC rearrangements within individual post-chernobyl papillary thyroid carcinomas

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 4272-4279

  Unger, Kristian ^a   Zitzelsberger, Horst ^a   Salvatore, Giuliana ^b   Santoro, Massimo ^b   Bogdanova, Tatjana ^c   Braselmann, Herbert ^a   Kastner, Peter ^a   Zurnadzhy, Lyudmilla ^c   Tronko, Nikolay ^c   Hutzler, Peter ^a,d   Thomas, Gerry ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c STATE INSTITUTION NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR RADIATION MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

^d SINGLETON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICRODISSECTION; ONCOGENE RET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; TUMOR CELL;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ADOLESCENT; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; POWER PLANTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UKRAINE;

EID: 4544365901     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2003-031870     Document Type: Article

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