Comparison of human telomerase RNA and telomerase activity in urine for diagnosis of bladder cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1949-1954

  Müller, Markus ^a   Krause, Hans ^a   Heicappell, Rüdiger ^a   Tischendorf, Jens ^a   Shay, Jerry W ^b   Miller, Kurt ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URINALYSIS;

HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, NEOPLASM; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031822016     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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