Analysis of telomeric repeats and telomerase activity in human colon carcinoma cells with gene amplification

Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 166-170

  Bolzán, Alejandro D ^a   Páez, Gerardo L ^a   Bianchi, Martha S ^a   Bianchi, Néstor O ^a  

^a Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Celular   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHIMERA; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE MINUTE CHROMOSOME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MARKER CHROMOSOME; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; ONCOGENE MYC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TELOMERE;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA, NEOPLASM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENES, MYC; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 17044461854     PISSN: 01654608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-4608(00)00209-0     Document Type: Article

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