Cytological detection of telomerase activity using an in situ telomeric repeat amplification protocol assay

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2100-2103

  Ohyashiki, Kazuma ^a   Ohyashiki, Junko H ^a   Nishimaki, Jiroh ^a   Toyama, Keisuke ^a   Ebihara, Yoshiro ^a   Kato, Harubumi ^a   Wright, Woodring E ^b   Shay, Jerry W ^b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTESTINE CRYPT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE;

ACUTE DISEASE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTES; LYMPHOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030912963     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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