Transfer of the human telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) gene into T lymphocytes results in extension of replicative potential

Blood

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 597-603

  Rufer, Nathalie ^a   Migliaccio, Marco ^a   Antonchuk, Jennifer ^a   Humphries, R Keith ^a   Roosnek, Eddy ^a   Lansdorp, Peter M ^a  

^a Laboratory of AIDS Immunopathogenesis   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; RETROVIRUS VECTOR;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOTOXICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; LIFESPAN; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SOMATIC CELL; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE GENE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0035437179     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.V98.3.597     Document Type: Article

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