Human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) gene expression in thyroid neoplasms

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1483-1489

  Saji, Motoyasu ^a   Xydas, Steve ^a   Westra, William H ^a   Liang, Chien Ko ^a   Clark, Douglas P ^a   Udelsman, Robert ^a   Umbricht, Christopher B ^a   Sukumar, Saraswati ^a   Zeiger, Martha A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RNA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELOMERASE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033045026     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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