Serum insulin-like growth factor-I concentration is associated with leukocyte telomere length in a population-based cohort of elderly men

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5078-5084

  Movérare Skrtic, Sofia ^a   Svensson, Johan ^a   Karlsson, Magnus K ^b,c   Orwoll, Eric ^d   Ljunggren, Östen ^e   Mellström, Dan ^a   Ohlsson, Claes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; SOMATOMEDIN C;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; TELOMERE;

EID: 73249128862     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2009-1450     Document Type: Article

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