Change in telomerase activity during human colorectal carcinogenesis

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3 B, 1999, Pages 2167-2172

  Yoshida, Ryo ^a   Kiyozuka, Yasuhiko ^a   Ichiyoshi, Hiroshi ^a   Senzaki, Hideto ^a   Takada, Hideho ^a   Hioki, Koshiro ^a   Tsubura, Airo ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colorectal adenoma; Colorectal cancer; Telomerase; TRAP assay

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON MUCOSA; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; CA-19-9 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032789719     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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