Administration with telomeric DNA telomere-like oligonucleotides induces enhancement of telomerase activity and resistance against oxidative stress in telomere reverse transcriptase gene-transfected human fibroblasts

Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 565-571

  Watanabe, Shin ^a   Saitoh, Yasukazu ^a   Namba, Masayoshi ^b   Miwa, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HIROSHIMA   (Japan)

^b Niimi University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Oxidative stress; Telomerase activity; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TELOMERASE; TERT BUTYL HYDROPEROXIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL CLONING; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME SIZE; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FIBROBLAST; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TELOMERE;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 77956875852     PISSN: 07533322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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