Aging and p53: Getting it straight A commentary on a recent paper by Gentry and Venkatachalam

Aging Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 331-333

  Vijg, Jan ^a   Hasty, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN P53;

AGING; ALLELE; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA REPAIR; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC STABILITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

AGING; ANIMALS; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 33644826850     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: 14749726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2005.00179.x     Document Type: Note

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