Establishing tumor cell lines from aggressive telomerase-positive chordomas of the skull base: Technical note

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 482-484

  Ricci Vitiani, Lucia ^b   Pierconti, Francesco ^b   Falchetti, Maria Laura ^b   Petrucci, Giovanna ^b   Maira, Giulio ^b   De Maria, Ruggero ^b   Larocca, Luigi Maria ^b   Pallini, Roberto ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cell culture; Chordoma; Skull base tumor; Telomerase

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53; TELOMERASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHORDOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOLAYER CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL BASE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ADULT; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHORDOMA; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TELOMERASE;

EID: 33748496013     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2006.105.3.482     Document Type: Article

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