Azidothymidine, blocking telomerase functioning, shortens telomeric repeats in transformed human cells

Genetika

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1444-1446

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

^a ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR; TELOMERASE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; TELOMERE;

CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; HUMANS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITORS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; ZIDOVUDINE;

EID: 0031242036     PISSN: 00166758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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