Ait-Aissa, K., Ebben, J. D., Kadlec, A. O., & Beyer, A. M. (2016). Friend or foe? Telomerase as a pharmacological target in cancer and cardiovascular disease. Pharmacological Research, 111, 422–433.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phrs.2016.07.003
Allsopp, R. C., Vaziri, H., Patterson, C., Goldstein, S., Younglai, E. V., Futcher, A. B., Greider, C. W., & Harley, C. B. (1992). Telomere length predicts replicative capacity of human fibroblasts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 89(21), 10114–10118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.89.21.10114
Boccardi, V., & Marano, L. (2024). Aging, cancer, and inflammation: The telomerase connection. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(15), 8542. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25158542
Carneiro, M. C., Henriques, C. M., Nabais, J., Ferreira, T., Carvalho, T., & Ferreira, M. G. (2016). Short telomeres in key tissues initiate local and systemic aging in zebrafish. PLoS Genetics, 12(1), e1005798. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005798
Decker, M. L., Chavez, E., Vulto, I., & Lansdorp, P. M. (2009). Telomere length in Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, 130(6), 377–383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mad.2009.03.001
Epel, E. S., Blackburn, E. H., Lin, J., Dhabhar, F. S., Adler, N. E., Morrow, J. D., & Cawthon, R. M. (2004). Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101(49), 17312–17315. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407162101
Eppard, M., Passos, J. F., & Victorelli, S. (2024). Telomeres, cellular senescence, and aging: Past and future. Biogerontology, 25(2), 329–339. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10522-023-10085-4
Greider, C. W., & Blackburn, E. H. (1985). Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts. Cell, 43(2–3), 405–413. https://doi.org/10.1016/0092-8674(85)90170-9
Harley, C. B., Futcher, A. B., & Greider, C. W. (1990). Telomeres shorten during ageing of human fibroblasts. Nature, 345(6274), 458–460. https://doi.org/10.1038/345458a0
Hemann, M. T., Strong, M. A., Hao, L. Y., & Greider, C. W. (2001). The shortest telomere, not average telomere length, is critical for cell viability and chromosome stability. Cell, 107(1), 67–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0092-8674(01)00504-9
Herrmann, W., & Herrmann, M. (2020). The importance of telomere shortening for atherosclerosis and mortality. Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 7(3), 29. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd7030029
Leão, R., Apolónio, J. D., Lee, D., Figueiredo, A., Tabori, U., & Castelo-Branco, P. (2018). Mechanisms of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) regulation: Clinical impacts in cancer. Journal of Biomedical Science, 25(1), 22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12929-018-0422-8
Lee, J., & Pellegrini, M. V. (2022). Biochemistry, telomere and telomerase. In StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK576429/
Lin, J., & Epel, E. (2022). Stress and telomere shortening: Insights from cellular mechanisms. Ageing Research Reviews, 73, 101507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2021.101507
Lupatov, A. Y., & Yarygin, K. N. (2022). Telomeres and telomerase in the control of stem cells. Biomedicines, 10(10), 2335. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines10102335
Martin, H., Doumic, M., Teixeira, M. T., & Xu, Z. (2021). Telomere shortening causes distinct cell division regimes during replicative senescence in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Cell & Bioscience, 11(1), 180. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13578-021-00693-3
O'Sullivan, R. J., & Karlseder, J. (2010). Telomeres: Protecting chromosomes against genome instability. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 11(3), 171–181. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrm2848
Razgonova, M. P., Zakharenko, A. M., Golokhvast, K. S., Thanasoula, M., Sarandi, E., Nikolouzakis, K., Fragkiadaki, P., Tsoukalas, D., Spandidos, D. A., & Tsatsakis, A. (2020). Telomerase and telomeres in aging theory and chronographic aging theory (Review). Molecular Medicine Reports, 22(3), 1679–1694. https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2020.11274
Rodriguez-Brenes, I. A., & Peskin, C. S. (2010). Quantitative theory of telomere length regulation and cellular senescence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 107(12), 5387–5392. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0914502107
Shay, J. W., & Wright, W. E. (2000). Hayflick, his limit, and cellular ageing. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 1(1), 72–76. https://doi.org/10.1038/35036093
Sohal, R. S., & Weindruch, R. (1996). Oxidative stress, caloric restriction, and aging. Science, 273(5271), 59–63. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.273.5271.59
Srinivas, N., Rachakonda, S., & Kumar, R. (2020). Telomeres and telomere length: A general overview. Cancers, 12(3), 558. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers12030558
Tufail, M., Huang, Y. Q., Hu, J. J., Liang, J., He, C. Y., Wan, W. D., Jiang, C. H., Wu, H., & Li, N. (2024). Cellular aging and senescence in cancer: A holistic review of cellular fate determinants. Aging and Disease, 16(3), 1483–1512. https://doi.org/10.14336/AD.2024.0421
Vaiserman, A., & Krasnienkov, D. (2021). Telomere length as a marker of biological age: State-of-the-art, open issues, and future perspectives. Frontiers in Genetics, 11, 630186. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2020.630186
Wattis, J. A. D., Qi, Q., & Byrne, H. M. (2020). Mathematical modelling of telomere length dynamics. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 80(4), 1039–1076. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-019-01448-y
)