Determining the influence of telomere dysfunction and DNA damage on stem and progenitor cell aging - what markers can we use?

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 998-1004

  Nalapareddy, Kodandaramireddy ^a   Jiang, Hong ^a,b   Gutierrez, Luis Miguel Guachalla ^a   Rudolph, K Lenhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b First Affiliated Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Stem cells; Telomere function

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CASPASE; CYTOCHROME C; FAS ANTIGEN; HISTONE H2AX; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN P16; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN P53;

APOPTOSIS; CELL AGING; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENESCENCE; SHORT SURVEY; STEM CELL; TELOMERE; TISSUE REGENERATION;

ADULT STEM CELLS; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL AGING; CHITINASE; DNA DAMAGE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, ANIMAL; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; STATHMIN; STEM CELLS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 54949122449     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2008.09.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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