Telomere shortening and tumor formation by mouse cells lacking telomerase RNA

Cell

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-34

  Blasco, María A ^a,c   Lee, Han Woong ^b   Hande, M Prakash ^d   Samper, Enrique ^c   Lansdorp, Peter M ^d,e   DePinho, Ronald A ^b   Greider, Carol W ^a,f  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^d BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030931491     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(01)80006-4     Document Type: Article

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