Genetics of aging - Sponsored by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2-5 April 1998

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Reviews on Cancer

Volumn 1423, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  Vijg, Jan ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

(Caenorhabditis elegans); Genome stability system; Replicative senescence; Telomerase; Werner syndrome; Yeast

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WERNER SYNDROME; YEAST;

AGING; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; RECEPTOR, INSULIN; WERNER SYNDROME; YEASTS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033613685     PISSN: 0304419X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-419X(98)00028-6     Document Type: Review

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