Differential regulation of telomerase activity and telomerase RNA during multi-stage tumorigenesis

Nature Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 200-204

  Blasco, María A ^a   Rizen, Michael ^b   Greider, Carol W ^a   Hanahan, Douglas ^b  

^a Watson School of Biological Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET CELL CARCINOMA; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TELOMERE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS ONCOGENE;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, ISLET CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; LYMPH NODES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RNA; RNA, NEOPLASM; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TELOMERASE;

EID: 0030070054     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0296-200     Document Type: Article

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