Azidothymidine, Blocking Telomerase Functioning, Shortens Telomeric Repeats in Transformed Human Cells

Russian Journal of Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1238-1240

  Yegorov, Y E ^a   Akhmalisheva, A Kh ^b   Smirnova, Yu B ^a   Shinkarev, D B ^a   Chernov, D N ^a,c   Zelenin, A V ^a   Kraevskii, A A ^a  

^a ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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