Repair of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers or dimethylsulfate damage in DNA is identical in normal or telomerase-immortalized human skin fibroblasts
The progression of a normal cell to senescence in vivo and in vitro is accompanied by a reduction in the length of the telomeres, the chromosome capping segments at the end of each linkage group. However, overexpression of the reverse transcriptase subunit (HTERT) of the ribonucleoprotein telomerase...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1087900/ |