Shortened telomere length and increased telomerase activity in hamster pancreatic duct adenocarcinomas and cell lines

Molecular Carcinogenesis

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 153-159

  Kobitsu, Kunihiko ^a   Tsutsumi, Masahiro ^a   Tsujiuchi, Toshifumi ^a   Suzuki, Fumio ^b   Kido, Akira ^a   Okajima, Eijiro ^a   Fukuda, Tomokazu ^a   Sakaki, Toshisuke ^a   Konishi, Yoichi ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Hamster; Pancreas; Telomerase; Telomere

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; TELOMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HAMSTER; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS DUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MESOCRICETUS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPLEEN; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS;

EID: 0030934745     PISSN: 08991987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2744(199703)18:3<153::AID-MC4>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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