Low-dose persistent organic pollutants increased telomere length in peripheral leukocytes of healthy Koreans

Mutagenesis

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 511-516

  Shin, Ji Yeon ^a   Choi, Yi Young ^b   Jeon, Hyo Sung ^b   Hwang, Jun Hyun ^a   Kim, Sung Ae ^a   Kang, Jung Ho ^c   Chang, Yoon Seok ^c   Jacobs, David R ^d   Park, Jae Yong ^b,c   Lee, Duk Hee ^a  

^a Department of Preventive Medicine ^*  (South Korea)

^b Kyungpook National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPTACHLOR EPOXIDE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; OXYCHLORDANE; PESTICIDE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BLOOD LEVEL; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; POLLUTANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH KOREA; TELOMERE;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77956253954     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/geq035     Document Type: Article

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