Centrosomal abnormalities, multipolar mitoses, and chromosomal instability in head and neck tumours with dysfunctional telomeres

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 202-207

  Gisselsson, D ^a   Jonson, T ^a   Yu, C ^a   Martins, C ^b   Mandahl, N ^a   Wiegant, J ^c   Jin, Y ^a   Mertens, F ^a   Jin, C ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DE ONCOLOGIA DE LISBOA FRANCISCO GENTIL   (Portugal)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breakage fusion bridge cycle; Centrosome; Pleomorphic adenoma; Squamous cell carcinoma; Telomere

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; GUANINE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE; THYMINE;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICENTRIC CHROMOSOME; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENOME; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPING; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TELOMERE; TELOPHASE;

ADENOMA, PLEOMORPHIC; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA, NEOPLASM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MITOSIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PAROTID NEOPLASMS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0037100745     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600438     Document Type: Article

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