Correlation of telomerase activity to apoptosis and survival in adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia: An Egyptian single-center study

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 213-221

  Asfour, Inas Ahmed ^a   Fayek, Manal Hashem ^a   El kourashy, Shaza Abd Elwahab Ahmed ^a   Youssef, Soha Raouf ^a   El Gohary, Ghada Metwally Twafik ^a   Mohamed, Omar Fathy ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Adult ALL; Apoptosis; Survival; Telomerase

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE; TUMOR MARKER;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGYPT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EGYPT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SURVIVAL RATE; TELOMERASE; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 38649115674     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-007-0395-2     Document Type: Article

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