Telomerase expression in respiratory epithelium during the multistage pathogenesis of lung carcinomas

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2373-2377

  Yashima, Kazuo ^a   Litzky, Leslie A ^c   Kaiser, Larry ^c   Rogers, Thomas ^a,b   Lam, Stephen ^d   Wistuba, Ignacio I ^a   Milchgrub, Sara ^b   Srivastava, Sudhir ^e   Piatyszek, Mieczyslaw A ^b,f   Shay, Jerry W ^b   Gazdar, Adi F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f GERON CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG HILUS; LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM;

CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA IN SITU; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; TELOMERASE;

EID: 15444341922     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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