Telomerase Activity in Cell Lines of Pediatric Soft Tissue Sarcomas

Pediatric Research

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 718-723

  Kleideiter, Elke ^a   Schwab, Matthias ^a   Friedrich, Ulrike ^a   Koscielniak, Ewa ^b   Schäfer, Beat W ^c   Klotz, Ulrich ^a  

^a DR MARGARETE FISCHER BOSCH INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OLGAHOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMBRYONAL RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TELOMERE; TELOMERIC REPEAT AMPLIFICATION PROTOCOL;

ADOLESCENT; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHILD; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROGNOSIS; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0142179066     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/01.PDR.0000086901.29111.2A     Document Type: Article

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