Accumulation of short telomeres in human fibroblasts prior to replicative senescence

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 256, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 291-299

  Martens, Uwe M ^a   Chavez, Elizabeth A ^b   Poon, Steven S S ^c   Schmoor, Claudia ^a   Lansdorp, Peter M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fibroblasts; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Recombination; Replicative senescence; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; FETUS; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0034630432     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.2000.4823     Document Type: Article

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