Quantification of telomerase activity and hTERT alternative splicing variants in lung tumor tissues.

hTERT: human telomerase reverse transcriptase; Adc, adenocarcinoma; Scc, squamous cell carcinoma; ASc, adenosquamous carcinoma; CSS, combined small cell and squamous cell carcinoma.*The means±standard deviation of duplicate determinations.#The means±standard deviation of triplicate determinations.★It was calculated by dividing the relative expression value of the overall transcripts by that of each deletion.