The first molecular details of ALT in human tumor cells

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2005, Pages

  Muntoni, Alessandra ^a   Reddel, Roger R ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; DNA MINISATELLITE; MRE11 PROTEIN; RAD50 PROTEIN; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE INHIBITOR;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL POPULATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; KARYOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELOMERE; TUMOR CELL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 27744527486     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddi266     Document Type: Article

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