Telomerase activity in the normal and neoplastic rat mammary gland

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 5605-5609

  Varon, Debora ^a   Jiang, Cheng ^b   Hedican, Catigan ^a   Dome, Jeffrey S ^a   Umbricht, Christopher B ^a   Carey, Lisa A ^a   Thompson, Henry J ^b   Sukumar, Saraswati ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; METHYLNITROSOUREA; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TELOMERASE;

EID: 0031454189     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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