Telomerase activity in normal and neoplastic breast

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 627-631

  Tsao, Jen Ian ^a   Zhao, Yanle ^a   Lukas, Jason ^a   Yang, Xiaowei ^a   Shah, Annesh ^a   Press, Michael ^a   Shibata, Darryl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; REFERENCE VALUES; TELOMERASE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030917358     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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