Modeling aging and cancer in the telomerase knockout mouse

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 576, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 39-53

  Chang, Sandy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mammalian; Telomerase; Telomere

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; TELOMERASE;

AGING; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME SIZE; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; TELOMERE; TUMOR GROWTH;

AGING; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEOPLASMS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 22144476221     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2004.08.020     Document Type: Review

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