Telomerase activity of basal cell carcinoma in patients living in North Queensland, Australia

Human Pathology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1023-1029

  Saleh, Said ^a   King Yin Lam, Alfred ^b   Gertraud Buettner, Petra ^a   Glasby, Margaret ^a   Raasch, Beverly ^a   Ho, Yik Hong ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basal cell carcinoma; Skin cancer; Telomerase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; TELOMERIC REPEAT AMPLIFICATION PROTOCOL;

AGED; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUEENSLAND; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TELOMERASE;

EID: 34250320119     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2006.12.006     Document Type: Article

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