Quantitative differences in telomerase activity among malignant, premalignant, and benign ovarian lesions

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 399-405

  Kyo, Satoru ^a   Takakura, Masahiro ^a   Tanaka, Masaaki ^a   Murakami, Koichi ^a   Saitoh, Rie ^b   Hirano, Hisao ^b   Inoue, Masaki ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIPPON GENE Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; OVARY CYST; OVARY TUMOR; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; TANDEM REPEAT;

FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OVARIAN CYSTS; OVARIAN DISEASES; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031934546     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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