Attenuation of telomerase activity by a hammerhead ribozyme targeting the template region of telomerase RNA in endometrial carcinoma cells

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 5406-5410

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

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER THERAPY; CELL FREE SYSTEM; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG TARGETING; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; TELOMERASE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032403264     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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