One falsehood leads easily to another

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2165-2168

  MacLeod, Roderick A F ^a   Dirks, Wilhelm G ^a   Drexler, Hans G ^a  

^a Department of Human and Animal Cell Cultures ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CYTOGENETICS; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HELA CELL; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; LETTER; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; LYMPHOMA CELL LINE; NEUROBLASTOMA; OVARY ADENOCARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ANIMAL; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; STANDARD; TUMOR CELL LINE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CELL LINE, TUMOR; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); UNITED STATES;

EID: 40749156345     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.23327     Document Type: Letter

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