Estrogen activates telomerase

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 5917-5921

  Kyo, Satoru ^a   Takakura, Masahiro ^a   Kanaya, Taro ^a   Zhuo, Wang ^a   Fujimoto, Kohtaro ^a   Nishio, Yukihito ^c   Orimo, Akira ^b   Inoue, Masaki ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; TRANSACTIVATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TELOMERASE; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033406452     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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