Telomerase activity in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and adjacent tissues

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 5600-5604

  Mao, Li ^a,b   El Naggar, Adel K ^a   Fan, You Hong ^a   Lee, Jin Soo ^a   Lippman, Scott M ^a   Kayser, Scott ^a   Lotan, Reuben ^a   Hong, Waun Ki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPLASIA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERKERATOSIS; HYPERPLASIA; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TELOMERE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; TELOMERASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029769788     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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