KIT and mastocytosis

Acta Haematologica

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 194-198

  Lim, Ken Hong ^a   Pardanani, Animesh ^a   Tefferi, Ayalew ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

KIT mutation; Mast cell disease; Systemic mastocytosis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CLADRIBINE; CORE BINDING FACTOR; CORTICOSTEROID; CROMOGLYCATE DISODIUM; DASATINIB; IMATINIB; MIDOSTAURIN; NILOTINIB; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PSORALEN; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANEMIA; BONE MARROW TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; GAMETOGENESIS; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; MAST CELL; MELANOGENESIS; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PIEBALDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMIC MASTOCYTOSIS; T CELL LYMPHOMA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; URTICARIA PIGMENTOSA; VOMITING;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; MAST CELLS; MASTOCYTOSIS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PIEBALDISM; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 47949121408     PISSN: 00015792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000140630     Document Type: Review

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