Telomere shortening exposes functions for the mouse Werner and Bloom syndrome genes

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 8437-8446

  Du, Xiaobing ^a   Shen, Johnny ^a   Kugan, Nishan ^a   Furth, Emma E ^a   Lombard, David B ^b   Cheung, Catherine ^b   Pak, Sally ^e   Luo, Guangbin ^f   Pignolo, Robert J ^a   DePinho, Ronald A ^c,d   Guarente, Leonard ^e   Johnson, F Brad ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOM SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; WERNER SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; BLOOM SYNDROME; BODY CONSTITUTION; INFERTILITY; INTESTINE, SMALL; LONGEVITY; MALE; MICE; MUTATION; RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TESTIS; WERNER SYNDROME; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 4544301617     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.19.8437-8446.2004     Document Type: Article

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