Telomerase activity in human bladder cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 929-932

  Lin, Yi ^a   Miyamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Fujinami, Kiyoshi ^a   Uemura, Hiroji ^a   Hosaka, Masahiko ^a   Iwasaki, Yoshiko ^b   Kubota, Yoshinobu ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BLADDER CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; TELOMERASE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029903128     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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