Telomerase activity in thyroid tumors

Oncology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1447-1450

  Onoda, Naoyoshi ^a   Ishikawa, Tetsuro ^a   Yoshikawa, Kazuhiko ^a   Sugano, Seiji ^a   Kato, Yasuyuki ^a   Sowa, Michio ^b   Chung, Kosei Hirakawa Yong Suk ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Telomerase activity; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID TUMOR;

EID: 0031715097     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.5.6.1447     Document Type: Article

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