Telomerase activation by HTRT in human normal fibroblasts and hepatocellular cyarcinomas

Nature Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-68

  Nakayama, Jun Ichi ^a   Tahara, Hidetoshi ^b   Tahara, Eiji ^b   Saito, Motoki ^a   Ito, Kaori ^a   Nakamura, Hideo ^c   Nakanishi, Toshio ^b   Tahara, Eiichi ^b   Ide, Toshinori ^b   Ishikawa, Fuyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; LIVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS; RABBITS; RNA; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 17344363008     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0198-65     Document Type: Article

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