Telomerase and cancer therapy with nanoparticles
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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9783848436934
Автор
Fatemeh Kazemi-Lomedasht
Издатель
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Страниц
64
Год выпуска
2014
Breast cancer is ranked as the second highest cause of cancer death in women of all ages, preceded only by lung cancer. The most prominent difference between tumors and normal cells is their proliferative capacity. While normal cells have a limited life span and show replicative senescence, tumor cells are immortal. The biochemical mechanism responsible for tumor cell immortalization, and conversely for normal cell senescence, involves an enzyme termed telomerase