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Telomerase in saliva: An assistant marker for oral squamous cell carcinoma
1 May 2019
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INTRODUCTION: Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein complex responsible for de novo telomere synthesis and addition of telomeric repeats to existing telomeres. Telomerase activity is generally found to be absent in normal tissues. Telomerase is known to be induced upon malignant transformation of human cells. METHOD: In the present study, we analyzed both telomere length and telomerase activity in saliva samples from...
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