Telomerase activity in benign endometrium and endometrial carcinoma

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 2760-2764

  Brien, Thomas P ^a   Kallakury, Bhaskar V S ^a   Lowry, Charles V ^a   Ambros, Robert A ^a   Muraca, Patrick J ^b   Malfetano, John H ^a   Ross, Jeffrey S ^a,c  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Oncor Inc   (United States)

^c Laboratory Medicine A 81   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TELOMERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELOMERASE;

EID: 0030787753     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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