Functional assessment of pharmacological telomerase activators in human T cells.

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Published in Cells on January 14, 2013

Authors

Brenda Molgora1, Riley Bateman2, Greg Sweeney3, Danielle Finger4, Taylor Dimler5, Rita B Effros6, Hector F Valenzuela7

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biology, Whittier College,13406 Philadelphia Street, P.O. Box 634, Whittier 90608, CA, USA. bmolgora@poets.whittier.edu.
2: Department of Biology, Whittier College,13406 Philadelphia Street, P.O. Box 634, Whittier 90608, CA, USA. rbateman@poets.whittier.edu.
3: Department of Biology, Whittier College,13406 Philadelphia Street, P.O. Box 634, Whittier 90608, CA, USA. gsweeney@poets.whittier.edu.
4: Department of Biology, Whittier College,13406 Philadelphia Street, P.O. Box 634, Whittier 90608, CA, USA. dfinger@poets.whittier.edu.
5: Department of Biology, Whittier College,13406 Philadelphia Street, P.O. Box 634, Whittier 90608, CA, USA. mdimler@poets.whittier.edu.
6: Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles 90095-1732, CA, USA. Reffros@mednet.ucla.edu.
7: Department of Biology, Whittier College,13406 Philadelphia Street, P.O. Box 634, Whittier 90608, CA, USA. hvalenzu@whittier.edu.

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