Essential role of mouse telomerase in highly proliferative organs

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6676, 1998, Pages 569-574

  Lee, Han Woong ^a,e   Blasco, Maria A ^b,c   Gottlieb, Geoffrey J ^d   Horner II, James W ^a   Greider, Carol W ^b,f   DePinho, Ronald A ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d QUEST DIAGNOSTICS NICHOLS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GROWTH REGULATION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPLEEN CELL; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME BANDING; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OVARY; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032499210     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/33345     Document Type: Article

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