Analyses and comparisons of telomerase activity and telomere length in human T and B cells: Insights for epidemiology of telomere maintenance

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 352, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 71-80

  Lin, Jue ^a   Epel, Elissa ^a   Cheon, Joshua ^a   Kroenke, Candyce ^a   Sinclair, Elizabeth ^a   Bigos, Marty ^b   Wolkowitz, Owen ^a   Mellon, Synthia ^a   Blackburn, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GLADSTONE INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Aging related diseases; Immune cells; Telomerase; Telomere

Indexed keywords

CD28 ANTIGEN; TELOMERASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ISOLATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENESCENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TELOMERE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTIGENS, CD; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COHORT STUDIES; DNA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MIDDLE AGED; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 71749089585     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2009.09.012     Document Type: Article

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