Differential induction in telomerase activity among bladder cancer patients and controls on γ-radiation

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 606-609

  Xing, Jinliang ^a   Zhu, Yong ^a,b   Zhao, Hua ^a,c   Yang, Hushan ^a   Chen, Meng ^a   Spitz, Margaret R ^a   Wu, Xifeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MUTAGENIC AGENT; TELOMERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCOGENE C MYC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOKING HABIT;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TELOMERASE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34047258829     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-06-0615     Document Type: Article

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