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Current Topics in Pharmacology
Phcol 514
12:30 PM, Wednesday, February 2, 2000
Room T-530/530A HSC

Speaker: Kimberly Burton
Topic: Telomeres: influencing the rate of aging

References

  1. Harley CB, Futcher AB, Greider CW (1990) Telomeres shorten during ageing of human fibroblasts. Nature 345: 458-460.

  2. Bodnar AG, Ouellette M, Frokis M, Holt SE, Chiu C-P, Morin GB, Harley CB, Shay JW, Lichtsteiner S, Wright WE (1998) Extension of life-span by introduction of telomerase into normal human cells. Science 279:349-352.

  3. Blasco MA, Lee H-W, Hande MP, Samper E, Lansdorp PM, DePinho RA, Greider CW (1997) Telomere shortening and tumor formation by mouse cells lacking telomerase RNA. Cell 91: 25-34.

  4. Rudolph KL, Chang S, Lee H-L, Blasco M, Gottlieb GJ, Greider C, DePinho RA (1999) Longevity, stress response, and cancer in aging telomerase-deficient mice. Cell 96: 701-712.

  5. Kiyono T, Foster SA, Koop JI, McDougall JK, Galloway DA, Klingelhutz AJ (1998) Both Rb/p16INK4a inactivation and telomerase activity are required to immortalize human epithelial cells. Nature 396:84-88.

Reviews:

  1. Reddel RR (1998) A reassessment of the telomere hypothesis of senescence. Bioessays 20:977-984.

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