Telomerase activity is found in the epithelial cells but not in the stromal cells in human endometrial cell culture

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 985-989

  Yokoyama, Yasuhiro ^a   Takahashi, Yuichiro ^a   Shinohara, Ariyoshi ^a   Lian, Zenglin ^a   Xiaoyun, Wan ^a   Niwa, Kenji ^a   Tamaya, Teruhiko ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytokeratin; Endometrium; Epithelial cells; Stromal cells; Telomerase

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOMETRIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA CELL; TELOMERE;

ADULT; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGENASES; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; STROMAL CELLS; TELOMERASE;

EID: 0031693959     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/4.10.985     Document Type: Article

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