Evidence for UV-associated activation of telomerase in human skin

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 370-374

  Ueda, Masato ^b   Ouhtit, Allai ^a   Bito, Toshinori ^b   Nakazawa, Keiko ^c   Lübbe, Jann ^a   Ichihashi, Masamitsu ^b   Yamasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Nakazawa, Hisayoshi ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SUN EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GENES, P53; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNLIGHT; TELOMERASE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0031042892     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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