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Prognostic potential of the telomerase subunit human telomerase reverse transcriptase in tumor tissue and nontumorous mucosa from patients with colorectal carcinoma

✍ Ralf Gertler; Robert Rosenberg; Dominik Stricker; Martin Werner; Silke Lassmann; 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 351 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract ## BACKGROUND The stabilization of telomere lengths by telomerase activation is an important step in carcinogenesis and cell immortalization. Human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) is the catalytic subunit of this enzyme. The objective of this study was to evaluate the use of r