Developmental neural chromosome instability as a possible cause of childhood brain cancers

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 615-616

  Iourov, Ivan Y ^a   Vorsanova, Svetlana G ^b   Yurov, Yuri B ^a  

^a MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

^b PIROGOV RUSSIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CANCER CELL; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; GLIA CELL; LETTER; NERVE CELL; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; HUMANS;

EID: 60849121066     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.12.003     Document Type: Letter

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