Combination chemotherapy with telomerase inhibitors and genotoxic compounds against breast and colorectal cancers

Telomerase is the specialized reverse transcriptase responsible for the de novo synthesis of telomeric repeats at chromosome ends. Telomerase plays important roles in tumor development and is responsible for the indefinite growth phenotype in cancer. Telomerase over-expression is found in more tha...

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Main Author: Tamakawa, Raina Ayako
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29124