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Development of antibodies against p53 in lung cancer patients appears to be dependent on the type of p53 mutation.
Cancer research - 1 Aug 1992
Winter S F, Minna J D, Johnson B E, Takahashi T, Gazdar A F, Carbone D P
Abstract excerpt
Using immunoblotting techniques we studied the sera from small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer patients for antibodies directed against p53. We have also characterized the majority of these patients' tumors for p53 mutations. In the sera of 13% of the patients (4 of 40 small cell lung cancer and 2 of 6 non-small cell lung cancer) we found antibodies specific for the p53 tumor suppressor gene...
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