Cell senescence and cancer

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 203-213

  Mathon, Nicole F ^a   Lloyd, Alison C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ENZYME INHIBITOR; RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE RNA; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL AGING; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TELOMERE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL AGING; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, GENETIC; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; PHENOTYPE; RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0035754079     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35106045     Document Type: Article

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