MicroRNA profiling of gastric cancer patients from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded samples

Oncology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 613-619

  Osawa, Soshi ^a   Shimada, Yutaka ^a   Sekine, Shinichi ^a   Okumura, Tomoyuki ^a   Nagata, Takuya ^a   Fukuoka, Junya ^a   Tsukada, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Formalin fixed paraffin embedded samples; MiRNA profiling; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; MICRORNA; PARAFFIN; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROCHIP ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RNA EXTRACTION; STOMACH CANCER; UPREGULATION;

EID: 79958060654     PISSN: 17921074     EISSN: 17921082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ol.2011.313     Document Type: Article

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