Nonradioactive detection of telomerase activity using the telomeric repeat amplification protocol

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1583-1590

  Herbert, Brittney Shea ^a   Hochreiter, Amelia E ^a   Wright, Woodring E ^b   Shay, Jerry W ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE; GENETICS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; TELOMERE;

DNA PRIMERS; FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 34347249615     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.239     Document Type: Article

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