Relative contribution of normal and neoplastic cells determines telomerase activity and telomere length in primary cancers of the prostate, colon, and sarcoma

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1849-1857

  Engelhardt, Monika ^a   Albanell, Juan ^a   Drullinsky, Pamela ^a   Han, Wei ^a   Guillem, Jose ^a   Scher, Howard I ^a,b   Reuter, Viktor ^a   Moore, Malcolm A S ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; COLON BIOPSY; COLON CANCER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SARCOMA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOMERE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CELL COUNT; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TUMOR STEM CELLS;

EID: 0030873789     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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