Telomere dynamics in a human cancer cell line

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 247, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-37

  Sprung, Carl N ^a   Sabatier, Laure ^b   Murnane, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Laboratoire de Radiobiologie et Oncologie   (France)

Author keywords

Telomerase; Telomere dynamics; Telomere homeostasis

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL AGING; CELL CLONE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TELOMERE;

EID: 0033602035     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.1998.4293     Document Type: Article

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