Correlation of the expression of human telomerase subunits with telomerase activity in normal skin and skin tumors

Cancer

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2038-2044

  Wu, An ^a   Ichihashi, Masamitsu ^a   Ueda, Masato ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human telomerase catalytic subunit; Human telomerase RNA; Skin; Skin tumor; Telomerase; Telomerase associated protein

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKIN TUMOR;

CATALYTIC DOMAIN; HUMANS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0033571329     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19991115)86:10<2038::AID-CNCR22>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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