Telomerase activity is down regulated via decreases in hTERT mRNA but not TEP1 mRNA or hTERC during the differentiation of leukemic cells

Anticancer Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2 A, 2000, Pages 773-778

  Koyanagi, Yoko ^a   Kobayashi, Daisuke ^a   Yajima, Tomomi ^a   Asanuma, Koichi ^a   Kimura, Toshiyuki ^a   Sato, Taketoshi ^a   Kida, Takashi ^a   Yagihashi, Atsuhito ^a   Kameshima, Hidekazu ^a   Watanabe, Naoki ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Differentiation; hTERC; hTERT; Leukemia; Telomerase; TEP 1

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RETINOIC ACID; TELOMERASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRAIN HL 60; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; K562 CELLS; LEUKEMIA, B-CELL; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, T-CELL; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TELOMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; U937 CELLS;

EID: 0034010312     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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