Telomere length integrates psychological factors in the successful aging story, but what about the biology?

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 524-527

  De Meyer, Tim ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA POLYMERASE;

AGING; CHEEK; CHILDHOOD; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; REVIEW; TELOMERE; TELOMERE LENGTH;

ADRENAL CORTEX; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MOUTH MUCOSA; TELOMERE;

EID: 80052449292     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31822ed876     Document Type: Review

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