Creation of human tumour cells with defined genetic elements

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6743, 1999, Pages 464-468

  Hahn, William C ^a,b   Counter, Christopher M ^c   Lundberg, Ante S ^a,b   Beijersbergen, Roderick L ^a   Brooks, Mary W ^a   Weinberg, Robert A ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, POLYOMAVIRUS TRANSFORMING; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0033614998     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/22780     Document Type: Article

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