No association between telomere length and blood cell counts in elderly individuals

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 965-967

  Mollica, Luigina ^a,b   Fleury, Isabelle ^b   Belisle, Claude ^a   Provost, Sylvie ^a   Roy, Denis Claude ^a,b   Busque, Lambert ^a,b  

^a MAISONNEUVE ROSEMONT HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ageing; Blood counts; Telomere

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHROMOSOME SIZE; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD CELL COUNT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TELOMERE;

EID: 68949127614     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glp065     Document Type: Article

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