Correlation of telomere lengths in normal and cancers tissue in the large bowel

Cancer Letters

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 179-184

  Nakamura, Ken Ichi ^a   Furugori, Eiki ^a   Esaki, Yukiyoshi ^b   Arai, Tomio ^b   Sawabe, Motoji ^b   Okayasu, Isao ^c   Fujiwara, Mutsunori ^d   Kammori, Makoto ^e   Mafune, Ken Ichi ^e   Kato, Motonobu ^f   Oshimura, Mitsuo ^f   Sasajima, Koji ^g   Takubo, Kaiyo ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Colon carcinoma; Large intestine; Telomere shortening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CHROMOSOME SIZE; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOMERE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, LARGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

EID: 0034308106     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(00)00521-8     Document Type: Article

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