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Silvia Bacchetti

Silvia Bacchetti

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
58
Citations
23998
World Ranking
2054
National Ranking
64

Overview

Silvia Bacchetti is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada. Their academic profile encompasses a focus on research and scholarship within this institution.

As there are no recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, fields of study, subfields, or main topics of work listed, specific details about their research output or particular academic interests are not available. Likewise, there are no recorded awards or distinctions associated with their career.

Best Publications

  • A survey of telomerase activity in human cancer

    Jerry W Shay;S. Bacchetti

  • Telomere shortening associated with chromosome instability is arrested in immortal cells which express telomerase activity.

    C.M. Counter;A.A. Avilion;C.E. LeFeuvre;N.G. Stewart

  • hEST2, the Putative Human Telomerase Catalytic Subunit Gene, Is Up-Regulated in Tumor Cells and during Immortalization

    Matthew Meyerson;Christopher M Counter;Elinor Ng Eaton;Leif W Ellisen

  • Telomere elongation in immortal human cells without detectable telomerase activity.

    Tracy M. Bryan;Anna Englezou;Jyothi Gupta;Silvia Bacchetti

  • Telomerase activity in normal leukocytes and in hematologic malignancies.

    Christopher M. Counter;Jyothi Gupta;Calvin B. Harley;Brian Leber

  • Telomerase activity in human ovarian carcinoma.

    Christopher M. Counter;Hal W. Hirte;Silvia Bacchetti;Calvin B. Harley

  • The Human Telomerase Catalytic Subunit hTERT: Organization of the Gene and Characterization of the Promoter

    Yu-Sheng Cong;Jianping Wen;Silvia Bacchetti

  • Human telomerase RNA and telomerase activity in immortal cell lines and tumor tissues

    Ariel A. Avilion;Mieczyslaw A. Piatyszek;Jyothi Gupta;Jerry W. Shay

  • Telomerase, Cell Immortality, and Cancer

    C. B. Harley;N. W. Kim;K. R. Prowse;S. L. Weinrich

  • Telomerase activity associated with acquisition of malignancy in human colorectal cancer.

    Corinne Chadeneau;Kazy Hay;Hal W. Hirte;Steven Gallinger

  • Stabilization of short telomeres and telomerase activity accompany immortalization of Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B lymphocytes.

    C. M. Counter;F. M. Botelho;Ping Wang;C. B. Harley

  • Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres Is Characterized by High Rates of Telomeric Exchange

    J. Arturo Londoño-Vallejo;Héra Der-Sarkissian;Lucien Cazes;Silvia Bacchetti

  • Induction of hTERT expression and telomerase activity by estrogens in human ovary epithelium cells.

    Silvia Misiti;Simona Nanni;Giulia Fontemaggi;Yu Sheng Cong

  • Transfer of the gene for thymidine kinase to thymidine kinase-deficient human cells by purified herpes simplex viral DNA.

    Silvia Bacchetti;Frank L. Graham

  • The Telomere Lengthening Mechanism in Telomerase-Negative Immortal Human Cells Does Not Involve the Telomerase RNA Subunit

    Tracy M. Bryan;Lidija Marusic;Silvia Bacchetti;Masayoshi Namba

  • Multi-centre phase II clinical trial of yttrium-90 resin microspheres alone in unresectable, chemotherapy refractory colorectal liver metastases.

    M Cosimelli;R Golfieri;P P Cagol;L Carpanese

  • Protection against lethal challenge of BALB/c mice by passive transfer of monoclonal antibodies to five glycoproteins of herpes simplex virus type 2.

    N Balachandran;S Bacchetti;W E Rawls

  • Telomere maintenance by telomerase and by recombination can coexist in human cells

    Maria Antonietta Cerone;J. Arturo Londono-Vallejo;Silvia Bacchetti

  • Expression of SV40 large T antigen, but not small t antigen, is required for the induction of chromosomal aberrations in transformed human cells.

    Nancy Stewart;Silvia Bacchetti

  • Histone Deacetylation Is Involved in the Transcriptional Repression of hTERT in Normal Human Cells

    Yu-Sheng Cong;Silvia Bacchetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank L. Graham
Frank L. Graham McMaster University
Calvin B. Harley
Calvin B. Harley Geron (United States)
Christopher M. Counter
Christopher M. Counter Duke University
Maurizio C. Capogrossi
Maurizio C. Capogrossi Johns Hopkins University
Carlo Gaetano
Carlo Gaetano Goethe University Frankfurt
William E. Rawls
William E. Rawls Baylor College of Medicine
Ada Sacchi
Ada Sacchi Istituti Fisioterapici Ospitalieri
Philip E. Branton
Philip E. Branton McGill University
Brian Leber
Brian Leber McMaster University
James R. Smiley
James R. Smiley University of Alberta

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