Cellular senescence as a tumor-protection mechanism: the essential role of counting.

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Summary

Increasing understanding of the role of telomere shortening in the replicative aging of cultured fibroblasts now permits a re-examination of what may reasonably be called cellular senescence, and what most likely represents artifacts of the culture environment and/or specific cell-cycle control mechanisms.

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review
Published
2001-02-01
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Keywords

Senescence, Biology, Telomere, Cellular senescence, Cell biology

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