Tumor-dependent increase of serum amino acid levels in breast cancer patients has diagnostic potential and correlates with molecular tumor subtypes

Journal of Translational Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Poschke, Isabel ^a,b   Mao, Yumeng ^a   Kiessling, Rolf ^a   De Boniface, Jana ^a,c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Molecular subtypes; Serum amino acids; Tumor immunology

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CITRULLINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; ORNITHINE; PHENYLALANINE; SERINE; TYROSINE; VALINE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINO ACIDS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84887547257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14795876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1479-5876-11-290     Document Type: Article

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