Telomerase activity and the expression of telomerase components in pituitary adenoma with malignant transformation

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 267-274

  Harada, Kunyu ^a   Arita, Kazunori ^a   Kurisu, Kaoru ^a   Tahara, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

hTERT; MIB1; Pituitary carcinoma; Telomerase

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN P53; PROTIRELIN; TELOMERASE; THYROTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRANIOTOMY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROLACTIN RELEASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TELOMERE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; TELOMERASE;

EID: 0034074614     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(00)00181-6     Document Type: Article

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