X-Message-Number: 22437 From: Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 10:25:35 EDT Subject: four-amino-acid peptide telomerase activator There's an abstract from a Russian group that claims a peptide can turn on telomerase: 1: Bull Exp Biol Med. 2003 Jun;135(6):590-2. <A HREF="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Display&dopt=pubmed_pubmed&from_uid=12937682">Related Articles,</A> >Links</A> Epithalon Peptide induces telomerase activity and telomere elongation in human somatic cells. Khavinson VKh, Bondarev IE, Butyugov AA. St. Petersburg Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology, North-Western Division of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. Addition of Epithalon peptide in telomerase-negative human fetal fibroblast culture induced expression of the catalytical subunit, enzymatic activity of telomerase, and telomere elongation, which can be due to reactivation of telomerase gene in somatic cells and indicates the possibility of prolonging life span of a cell population and of the whole organism. PMID: 12937682 [PubMed - in process] Our med library doesn't get this journal. Anyone seen this paper (or the similar paper from the Cold Spring Harbor meeting?) Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22437