Expression profile of telomerase subunits in human pleural mesothelioma

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 80-85

  Dhaene, Karl ^a   Wauters, Jan ^a   Weyn, Barbara ^a   Timmermans, Jean Pierre ^a   Van Marck, Eric ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Laboratory of Pathology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antibody; hTERT; Mesothelioma; Splicing; Telomerase

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITHELIUM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MESOTHELIOMA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; TELOMERASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033972309     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9896(200001)190:1<80::AID-PATH498>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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