Telomeres, a busy platform for cell signaling

Frontiers in Oncology

Volumn 3 JUN, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gardano, Laura ^a,d   Pucci, Fabio ^a   Christian, Larissa ^a   Le Bihan, Thierry ^b   Harrington, Lea ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

catenin; APC; Shelterin; Telomerase; Telomere; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; DOXYCYCLINE; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENESCENCE; TELOMERE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84890207524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2234943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2013.00146     Document Type: Article

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