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.
Shingu, T., Jaskelioff, M., Yuan, L., Ding, Z., Protopopov, A., Kost-Alimova, M., Hu, J. Utilizing Murine Inducible Telomerase Alleles in the Studies of Tissue Degeneration/Regeneration and Cancer. J. Vis. Exp. (98), e52599, doi:10.3791/52599 (2015).