title: Telomeres and senescence: the history, the experiment, the future.
abstract: Telomere length has been proposed to signal entry into cellular senescence. Expression of the human telomerase subunit, hTERT, in primary cells now shows that these cells bypass senescence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 617 Hunterian Building, 725 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. cgreider@bs.jhmi.edu
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Greider
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D019098:Telomerase / Q000378:metabolism; D016615:Telomere / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D019098:Telomerase