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  • Institution/s: Universidad de Saarbrücken, Universidad de Valladolid
  • Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
  • Identification number: 128
  • Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
  • Author/s: Ana María ALCONCHEL SEBASTIÁN, Augustine Edith EMENE, Inés PLAZA FONTANET, Rosario HERRERO
  • Creation / modification date: 31-01-2014
  • Term: telomere
  • Gramatical category: s
  • Definition: Complex structure at the end of a linear chromosome that performs several cellular functions.
  • Context: When telomeres lose capping function, a DNA damage response is induced and the resultant telomere shortening is one of the factors that lead to an accumulation of unrepaired DNA damage during ageing, which causes cellular growth arrest.
  • Expression: telomere shortening
  • Weighting mark: nor
  • Remission: abr, ADN. Source: Brachet T (2004) : Le professeur Jean Brachet, Mon Père, Edition l’Harmattan, Paris. P 4a.
  • Sources:
    • Term: PASSARGE, Eberhard (2004). Taschenatlas der Genetik. 2., vollst. überarb. u. erw. Aufl. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 422.
    • Definition: PASSARGE, Eberhard (2004). Taschenatlas der Genetik. 2., vollst. überarb. u. erw. Aufl. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 422.
    • Context: BUSELMAIER, Werner (2012). Biologie für Mediziner. 12. neubearbeitete und erweiterte Aufl. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 92
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