Differentiation of human nasopharyngeal carcinoma xenografts and repression of telomerase activity induced by arsenic trioxide

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 67-70

  Du, Caiwen ^a   Li, Derui ^a   Lin, Yingcheng ^a   Wu, Mingyao ^a  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; CYTOKERATIN 4; LATENT MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TELOMERIC REPEAT AMPLIFICATION PROTOCOL; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ARSENICALS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKEMIA, PROMYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MICE; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; OXIDES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TELOMERASE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 2342474528     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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