Scientific correspondence

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 258-261

  Brokinkel, Benjamin ^a,b   Peetz Dienhart, Susanne ^b   Ligges, Sandra ^a   Brentrup, Angela ^a   Stummer, Walter ^a   Paulus, Werner ^b   Hasselblatt, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; BRAF PROTEIN, HUMAN; BRAF-KIAA1549 FUSION PROTEIN, HUMAN; FGFR1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ONCOPROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; RECEPTOR, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR, TYPE 1; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921792080     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: 13652990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nan.12145     Document Type: Letter

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