Short telomeres: Cause or consequence of aging?

Aging Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 577-578

  Hornsby, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cellular heterogeneity; Leukocytes; Stress; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

AGING; CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CELL AGING; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL POPULATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LENTIGO; LEUKOCYTE; MELANOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STEM CELL; TELOMERE; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL AGING; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LEUKOCYTES; LONGEVITY; PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY; SOCIAL CLASS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TELOMERE;

EID: 33751246791     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: 14749726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2006.00249.x     Document Type: Note

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