The telomere and telomerase: How do they interact?

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 292-300

  Blackburn, Elizabeth ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TELOMERE;

HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MUTATION; RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0033202184     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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