Potential pole of DNA polymerase beta in gene therapy against cancer: A case for colerectal cancer

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-9

  Shadan, F F ^a   Villarreal, L P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE BETA; DNA POLYMERASE;

CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLASTOCYST; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DNA REPLICATION; GENETICS; MAMMAL; NEOPLASM; ONCOGENE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA POLYMERASE I; DNA REPLICATION; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE THERAPY; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; ONCOGENES;

EID: 0029659035     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(96)90033-X     Document Type: Article

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