Telomerase activity in sputum and telomerase and its components in biopsies of advanced lung cancer

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1476-1482

  Pasrija, Teena ^a   Srinivasan, Radhika ^a   Behera, Digambar ^a   Majumdar, Siddhartha ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

c Myc; hTERT; Lung cancer; Non invasive diagnosis; Sputum; Telomerase

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; MALE; ONCOGENE C MYC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SARCOIDOSIS; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TELOMERIC REPEAT AMPLIFICATION PROTOCOL; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SPUTUM; TELOMERASE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 34249895896     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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