Telomere shortening with aging in human esophageal mucosa

Age

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 95-99

  Takubo, Kaiyo ^a,b   Nakamura, Ken Ichi ^a   Izumiyama, Naotaka ^a   Sawabe, Motoji ^a,b   Arai, Tomio ^a,b   Esaki, Yukiyoshi ^a,b   Tanaka, Yoichi ^c   Mafune, Ken Ichi ^d   Fujiwara, Mutsunori ^e   Kammori, Makoto ^d   Sasajima, Koji ^f  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^f NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; TELOMERE;

EID: 0033490950     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-999-0011-6     Document Type: Article

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