Telomerase enzyme activity and RNA expression during the multistage pathogenesis of breast carcinoma

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 229-234

  Yashima, Kazuo ^a   Milchgrub, Sara ^b   Gollahon, Lauren S ^b   Maitra, Anirban ^b   Saboorian, M H ^b   Shay, Jerry W ^b   Gazdar, Adi F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TELOMERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; RNA; TELOMERASE;

EID: 0031905596     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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