Age-related activation of the tyrosine kinase receptor protooncogenes RET and NTRK1 in papillary thyroid carcinoma

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2006-2009

  Bongarzone, Italia ^a   Fugazzola, Laura ^a   Vigneri, Paolo ^a   Mariani, Luigi ^a   Mondellini, Piera ^a   Pacini, Furio ^b   Basolo, Fulvio ^b   Pinchera, Aldo ^b   Pilotti, Silvana ^a   Pierotti, Marco Alessandro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ONCOPROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HORMONAL CARCINOGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IONIZING RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

3T3 CELLS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, TRKA; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 9344257862     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.5.2006     Document Type: Article

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