1. Telomeres and human reproduction
Keri Horan Kalmbach, M.S., Danielle Mota Fontes Antunes, M.S., Roberta Caetano Dracxler, M.D., Taylor Warner Knier, B.A., Michelle Louise Seth-Smith, B.S., Fang Wang, Ph.D., Lin Liu, Ph.D., David Lawrence Keefe, M.D. 
Fertility and Sterility 
Volume 99, Issue 1, Pages (January 2013)
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2. Figure 1
Schematic diagram of telomere loop (T loop) and shelterin proteins. Telomere repeat-binding factor 1 and 2 (TRF1, TRF2) associate with double-stranded DNA and serve as binding substrate for TIN2, TPP1, and Rap1. A third DNA-binding protein, Pot1, associates with the single-stranded DNA of the displacement loop (D loop).
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3. Figure 2
Schematic representation of telomere length relationships over mammalian development. Preimplantation development is associated with the greatest increase in telomere length in the course of development, owing to the telomerase-independent alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) pathway. Embryonic development follows with a period of telomere reserve maintained by telomerase activity in virtually every embryonic tissue. Through adulthood, telomerase expression is limited to stem cells, the male germ line, and cancer. Paradoxically, oocytes exhibit marked loss of telomere reserve that fails to recover over a mammalian life span.
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4. Figure 3
Representative metaphase spread from preimplantation murine blastomere. Double-stranded DNA (blue) is bound by nonspecific DNA-binding dye, and telomeres are bound by a PNA probe specific to telomere DNA repeats.
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