High susceptibility of a human breast epithelial cell type with stem cell characteristics to telomerase activation and immortalization

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 6118-6123

  Sun, Wei ^a   Kang, Kyung Sun ^a,b   Morita, Ikue ^a   Trosko, James E ^a   Chang, Chia Cheng ^a,c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; STEM CELL;

BREAST; CELL DIVISION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CELL TRANSFORMATION, VIRAL; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; STEM CELLS; TELOMERASE;

EID: 0033572419     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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