Systematic determination of telomerase activity and telomerase length during the progression of human breast cancer in cell culture models

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 6 D, 1997, Pages 4435-4441

  Imam, S Ashraf ^a,b   Kim, Mee S ^a   Anker, Lars ^a   Datar, Ram H ^a   Law, Ronald E ^a   Taylor, Clive R ^a  

^a Division of Hematology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast oncogenesis; Telomerase; Telomere

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY KI 67; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROBE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA PROBES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MICE; MICE, NUDE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERASE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031431785     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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