Telomere maintenance in tumour cells

Cancer Surveys

Volumn 28, Issue , 1996, Pages 197-216

  Bacchetti, S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TELOMERASE;

CARCINOGENESIS; CELL AGING; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC STABILITY; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; TELOMERE; TUMOR CELL;

CELL AGING; CELL DIVISION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0030456933     PISSN: 02612429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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