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Chinese Journal of Nature ›› 2009, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (6): 327-.

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Telomere, Telomerase and Its Potential Relationship with Aging, Cancer：A Brief Introduction to the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

KONG Lingping①, WANG Huaqiao②   

  1. ①Associate Professor, Conghua College, Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou 510182, China; ②Professor, Department of Anatomy and Brain Research, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou 510080, China
  • Received:2009-11-16 Revised:2009-12-01 Online:2009-12-25 Published:2009-12-25

Abstract: The Nobel Prize in Psysiology or Medicine 2009 was awarded to American scientist Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak, this is because they found that “chromosome is how the protection of telomere and telomerase”, and unveiled the results of this study of human aging and cancer incidence of physiological and pathological phenomena of life. In this paper, telomere and telomerase discovery, structure and function and its close association with human aging, cancer have done a brief introduction.

Key words: telomere, telomerase, cell, aging, tumor