Utilizing Murine Inducible Telomerase Alleles in the Studies of Tissue Degeneration/Regeneration and CancerTakashi Shingu 1, Mariela Jaskelioff 2, Liang Yuan 1, Zhihu Ding 3, Alexei Protopopov 4, Maria Kost-Alimova 4, Jian Hu 1
1Department of Cancer Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, 3Sanofi US, 4Institute of Applied Cancer Science, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Telomere and telomerase play essential roles in ageing and tumorigenesis. The goal of this protocol is to show how to generate two murine inducible telomerase knock-in alleles and how to utilize them in the studies of tissue degeneration/regeneration and cancer.
