Immortal activated human hepatic stellate cells generated by ectopic telomerase expression

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 323-333

  Schnabl, Bernd ^a   Choi, Youkyung Hwang ^b   Olsen, John C ^a   Hagedorn, Curt H ^b   Brenner, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NEOMYCIN; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIFESPAN; ONCOGENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STELLATE CELL; TELOMERE;

CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; KUPFFER CELLS; LIVER; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TELOMERASE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0036130252     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.3780426     Document Type: Article

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