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Mutational analysis of the beta-tubulin gene in lung cancer.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Jan 2002
Tsurutani Junji, Komiya Takefumi, Uejima Hisao, Tada Hirohito, Syunichi Negoro, Oka Mikio, Kohno Shigeru, Fukuoka Masahiro, Nakagawa Kazuhiko
Abstract excerpt
Recently, several studies have suggested that a major mechanism of resistance to paclitaxel might involve mutations in the beta-tubulin gene in tumor cells. To investigate the frequency of beta-tubulin mutations in Japanese patients with small and non-small cell lung cancer, direct sequence analysis following reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) of the beta-tubulin gene was performed using...
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