Telomerase activity in human development is regulated by human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) transcription and by alternate splicing of hTERT transcripts

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 4168-4172

  Ulaner, Gary A ^a   Hu, Ji Fan ^a   Vu, Thanh H ^a   Giudice, Linda C ^a   Hoffman, Andrew R ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HL 60; CELL STRAIN K 562; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ASSAY; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEINS; RNA; TELOMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032530136     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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