Characterization of primary wilms tumor cultures as an in vitro model

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 92-104

  Wegert, Jenny ^a   Bausenwein, Sabrina ^a   Roth, Sabine ^b   Graf, Norbert ^c   Geissinger, Eva ^b   Gessler, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TELOMERE; WILMS TUMOR GENE;

CELL AGING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MUTATION; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; TELOMERASE; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 80455150457     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: 10982264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gcc.20936     Document Type: Article

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