Telomere lengths are characteristic in each human individual

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 523-531

  Takubo, Kaiyo ^a   Izumiyama Shimomura, Naotaka ^a   Honma, Naoko ^a   Sawabe, Motoji ^b   Arai, Tomio ^b   Kato, Motonobu ^c   Oshimura, Mitsuo ^c   Nakamura, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; Heart; Human aging; Kidney; Liver; Spleen; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHILD; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CORTEX; LIVER; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPLEEN; TELOMERE; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

EID: 0036164074     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(01)00218-2     Document Type: Article

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