Aging and cancer: are telomeres and telomerase the connection?

Molecular Medicine Today

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 378-384

  Shay, Jerry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

AGING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIVISION; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FORECASTING; GENETICS; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TELOMERE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; DNA REPLICATION; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0029395466     PISSN: 13574310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1357-4310(95)93872-9     Document Type: Review

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