Techniques in gerontology: Cell lines as standards for telomere length and telomerase activity assessment

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 648-651

  Fehrer, Christine ^a   Voglauer, Regina ^b   Wieser, Matthias ^b   Pfister, Gerald ^a   Brunauer, Regina ^a   Cioca, Daniel ^a   Grubeck Loebenstein, Beatrix ^a   Lepperdinger, Günter ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aging; Cancer research; Molecular biology; Standards; Telomerase; Telomere

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL AGING; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EUKARYOTE; EVALUATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

CELL AGING; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE VALUES; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33745006840     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2006.03.016     Document Type: Article

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