Telomere length in human liver diseases

Liver

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 293-297

  Urabe, Yoshiaki ^a   Nouso, Kazuhiro ^a   Higashi, Toshihiro ^a   Nakatsukasa, Harushige ^a   Hino, Naoki ^a   Ashida, Kouzou ^a   Kinugasa, Nobuyuki ^a   Yoshida, Keigo ^a   Uematsu, Shuji ^a   Tsuji, Takao ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Hepatocarcinogenesis; Hepatocellular; Telomere

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; TELOMERE; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 10544224540     PISSN: 01069543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0676.1996.tb00748.x     Document Type: Article

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