Wilms' tumor-1: A riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside a kidney

Kidney International

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 411-412

  Kreidberg, Jordan A ^a,b   Hartwig, Sunny ^a,b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

CANCER GRADING; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MORPHOGENESIS; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 48649101675     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2008.307     Document Type: Note

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