Disease states associated with telomerase deficiency appear earlier in mice with short telomeres

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2950-2960

  Herrera, Eloísa ^a   Samper, Enrique ^a   Martín Caballero, Juan ^a   Flores, Juana M ^b   Lee, Han Woong ^c   Blasco, María A ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Samsung Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Hematology; Infertility; Splenic atrophy; Telomerase; Telomere

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BREEDING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; INTESTINE ATRESIA; LETHALITY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN DISEASE; SURVIVAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TELOMERE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; BODY WEIGHT; CELLS, CULTURED; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENES, LETHAL; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; INFERTILITY; INTESTINE, SMALL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LONGEVITY; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SPLEEN; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033153424     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.11.2950     Document Type: Article

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