Molecular cloning of the canine telomerase reverse transcriptase gene and its expression in neoplastic and non-neoplastic cells

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1395-1400

  Yazawa, Mitsuhiro ^a   Okuda, Masaru ^b   Kanaya, Noriko ^a   Hong, Sung Hyeok ^a   Takahashi, Tomoko ^a   Ohashi, Emi ^a   Nakagawa, Takayuki ^a   Nishimura, Ryohei ^a   Sasaki, Nobuo ^a   Masuda, Kenichi ^a   Ohno, Koichi ^a   Tsujimoto, Hajime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOG DISEASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; LIVER; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOMA CELL; MASTOCYTOMA; MELANOMA CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OSTEOSARCOMA CELL; OVARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TELOMERIC REPEAT AMPLIFICATION PROTOCOL; THYMUS; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS; REFERENCE VALUES; RNA, MESSENGER; TELOMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 0242691899     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.2003.64.1395     Document Type: Article

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