Telomeres and telomerase

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 2353-2359

  Blasco, María A ^a   Gasser, Susan M ^b   Lingner, Joachim ^b  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

AGING; CANCER; CHROMOSOME SIZE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TELOMERE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CELLS, CULTURED; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; SPAIN; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0033568637     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.18.2353     Document Type: Short Survey

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