Up-regulation of human telomerase catalytic subunit during gastric carcinogenesis

Cancer

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 559-565

  Jong, Hyun Soon ^a   Park, Young I ^b   Kim, Sung ^b   Sohn, Jin H ^b   Kang, Shin H ^a   Song, Sang H ^a   Bang, Yung Jue ^a   Kim, Noe K ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Hallym University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Carcinogenesis; Expression; Gastric carcinoma; Human telomerase catalytic subunit; Telomerase activity

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH CANCER; TELOMERE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TELOMERASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0033566898     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990815)86:4<559::AID-CNCR3>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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