Longer leukocyte telomere length is associated with smaller hippocampal volume among non-demented APOE ε3/ε3 subjects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Wikgren, Mikael ^a   Karlsson, Thomas ^b   Lind, Johanna ^c   Nilbrink, Therese ^a   Hultdin, Johan ^a   Sleegers, Kristel ^d,e   van Broeckhoven, Christine ^d,e   Roos, Göran ^a   Nilsson, Lars Göran ^f,g   Nyberg, Lars ^a   Adolfsson, Rolf ^a   Norrback, Karl Fredrik ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g Stockholm Brain Institute   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E3; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEART DISEASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELOMERE; AGE; AGED; ALLELE; ATROPHY; EPISODIC MEMORY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALLELES; APOLIPOPROTEIN E3; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; ATROPHY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL PROLIFERATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROGENESIS; TELOMERE;

EID: 84859582344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034292     Document Type: Article

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