Rapid telomere attrition in cardiac tissue of the ageing Wistar rat

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 855-857

  Hastings, Richard ^a   Li, Nai Chang ^a   Lacy, Peter S ^a   Patel, Hasmukh ^a   Herbert, Karl E ^a   Stanley, Adrian G ^a   Williams, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular system; Molecular ageing; Senescence; Telomere; Wistar rat

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEART; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LIVER; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOMERE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRAIN; DNA; HEART; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 2342571659     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2004.02.003     Document Type: Article

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