The Human Kallikrein Gene Family: New Biomarkers for Ovarian Cancer

Cancer Treatment and Research

Volumn 149, Issue , 2009, Pages 165-187

  Yousef, George M ^a,b   Diamandis, Eleftherios P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; KALLIKREIN;

GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 19; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; KALLIKREINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77953674090     PISSN: 09273042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-98094-2_8     Document Type: Review

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