Coupling a DNA-Based Machine with Glucometer Readouts for Amplified Detection of Telomerase Activity in Cancer Cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wang, Wenjing ^a   Huang, Shan ^a,c   Li, Jingjing ^b   Rui, Kai ^a   Zhang, Jian Rong ^a   Zhu, Jun Jie ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XUZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NINGXIA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TELOMERASE;

A-549 CELL LINE; DEVICES; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; MCF-7 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; REPRODUCIBILITY; TELOMERE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

A549 CELLS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA, NEOPLASM; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MCF-7 CELLS; NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 84962317858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep23504     Document Type: Article

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