Rating

	My Rating: 1 ratings 5 stars (1) 4 stars (0) 3 stars (0) 2 stars (0) 1 stars (0)

Email

	Email this page to a friend Friend's Email: Your Name: Your Email: Enter the code shown: Submitting Send Email

References

1. Muller, HJ. The remaking of chromosomes. Collecting Net. Woods Hole 1938; 13:181‐198.
2. McClintock B. The behavior in successive nuclear divisions of a chromosome broken at meiosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1939, 25:405-416.
3. McClintock B. The stability of broken ends of chromosomes in Zea mays. Genetics 1941; 26:234-282.
4. Hayflick L, Moorhead PS. The serial cultivation of human diploid cell strains. Exp Cell Res 1961;25:585-621.
5. Christofalo VJ, Allen RG, Pignolo RJ, Martin BG, Beck JC. Relationship between donor age and the replicative livespan of human cells in culture: A reevaluation.  Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1998;95:10614-10619.
6. Allsopp RC, Vaziri H, Patterson C, Goldstein S, Younglai EV, Futcher AB, Greider CW, Harley CB. Telomere length predicts replicative capacity of human fibroblasts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1992; 89: 10114‐10118.
7. Gomes NM, Ryder OA, Houck ML, Charter SJ, Walker W, Forsyth NR, Austad SN, Venditti C, Pagel M, Shay JW, Wright WE. Comparative biology of mammalian telomeres: hypotheses on ancestral states and the roles of telomeres in longevity determination. Aging Cell 2011;10:761-768.
8. Cooke HJ, Smith BA. Variability at the telomeres of the human X/Y pseudoautosomal region. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 1986;51(Pt 1):213–219.
9. Bodnar AG, Ouellette M, Frolkis M, Holt SE, Chiu C, Morin GB, Harley CB, Shay JW, Lichtsteiner S, Wright WE. Extension of life-span by introduction of telomerase into normal human cells. Science 1998;279:349-352.
10. Mather KA, Jorm AF, Parslow RA, Christensen H. Is telomere length a biomarker of aging? A review. J Gerontol: Biol Sci 2009;66A:202-213.
11. Shammas MA, Simmons CG, Corey DR, Shmookler Reis RJ. Telomerase inhibition by peptide nucleic acids reverses ‘immortality’ of transformed human cells. Oncogene 1999;18(46):6191-6200.
12. Gonzalez-Suarez E, Samper E, Flores JM, Blasco MA. Telomerase-deficient mice with short telomeres are resistant to skin tumorigenesis. Nat Genet 2000;26:114-117.
13. Rudolph KL, Millard M, Bosenberg MW, DePinho RA. Telomere dysfunction and evolution of intestinal carcinoma in mice and humans. Nat Genet 2001;28(2):155-159.
14. Artandi SE, Alson S, Tietze MK, Sharpless NE, Ye S, Greenberg RA, Castrillon DH, Horner JW, Weiler SR, Carrasco RD, DePinho RA. Constitutive telomerase expression promotes mammary carcinomas in aging mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:8191-8196.
15. Artandi SE, DePinho RA. Telomeres and telomerase in cancer. Carcinogenesis 2010;31:9-18.
16. Blackburn EH, Epel ES. Telomeres and adversity: Too toxic to ignore. Nature 2012;490:169-171.
17. Everitt AV, Rattan SIS, Couteur DG, de Cabo R (eds). Calorie Restriction, Aging and Longevity. Springer:Dordrecht 2010; 500 pp.

Disclosure

None reported.