Effect of TERT over-expression on the long-term transplantation capacity of hematopoietic stem cells [2]

Nature Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 369-371

  Allsoppi, Richard C ^a   Morin, Gregg B ^b   Horner, James W ^c   DePinho, Ronald ^c   Harley, Calvin B ^b   Weissman, Irving L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GERON CORPORATION   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

BIOLOGY; BONE MARROW; CELL POPULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HYPEROXIA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SENESCENCE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPLENOMEGALY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TELOMERE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TRANSGENES;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0345636016     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0403-369     Document Type: Letter

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