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CURRENT OPINION IN ONCOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 74-81Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00001622-200001000-00013
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The presence of telomerase activity in most human tumors, but not in many normal somatic tissues, has raised considerable interest in telomerase as a possible anticancer therapy, Recent advances in the cloning and characterization of mammalian telomerase components have paved the way for a more detailed understanding of the role of telomerase and telomere length maintenance in cell proliferation. Here, we summarize the most recent biochemical and genetic evidence suggesting that telomere length maintenance by telomerase is critical to the proliferative ability of some immortalized mammalian cells in culture and in vivo. (C) 2000 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.
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