Relationship between physical activity level, telomere length, and telomerase activity

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1764-1771

  Ludlow, Andrew T ^a   Zimmerman, Jo B ^a   Witkowski, Sarah ^a   Hearn, Joe W ^a   Hatfield, Bradley D ^a   Roth, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA; Exercise energy expenditure; Genetics; Htert genotype; Telomere biology

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE; PRIMER DNA; TERT PROTEIN, HUMAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROMOTER REGION; TELOMERE; EXERCISE; GENETICS; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 58149302774     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31817c92aa     Document Type: Article

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