Human telomerase RNA and telomerase activity in immortal cell lines and tumor tissues

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 645-650

  Avilion, Ariel A ^a   Piatyszek, Mieczyslaw A ^c   Gupta, Jyothi ^b   Shay, Jerry W ^c   Bacchetti, Silvia ^b   Greider, Carol W ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; TELOMERE;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL LINE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; KIDNEY; NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; RNA; RNA, NEOPLASM; TELOMERASE;

EID: 0030067487     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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