Cellular immortalization and neoplastic transformation: Simultaneous, sequential or independent? Telomeres, telomerase or karyotypic variations?

Chiara Mondello; Ilaria Chiodi

doi:10.4161/cc.24940

Cellular immortalization and neoplastic transformation: Simultaneous, sequential or independent? Telomeres, telomerase or karyotypic variations?

Cell Cycle. 2013 Jun 1;12(11):1804-5. doi: 10.4161/cc.24940. Epub 2013 May 8.

Authors

Chiara Mondello¹, Ilaria Chiodi

Affiliation

¹ Istituto di Genetica Molecolare, CNR, Pavia, Italy. mondello@igm.cnr.it

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Keywords: cancer; cellular transformation; chromosomal aberration; karyotype; microarray; oncogene; telomerase; telomere; transcription profiling; tumorsuppressor gene.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / genetics*
Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / pathology*
Female
Humans
Karyotyping*
Neoplasms / genetics*
Neoplasms / pathology*