Endless quest

BioEssays

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-5

  Holliday, Robin ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ANIMAL; CELL AGING; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DNA REPLICATION; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MURIDAE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL AGING; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DNA REPLICATION; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURIDAE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0029685271     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.950180103     Document Type: Article

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