How "reversible" is telomeric aging?

Cancer Prevention Research

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1163-1168

  Epel, Elissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; TELOMERASE;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; AGING; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SUBPOPULATION; COGNITION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; LEUKOCYTE; LIFE HISTORY; LIFESTYLE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; SHORT SURVEY; STRESS; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; AGING; HUMANS; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84867364065     PISSN: 19406207     EISSN: 19406215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-12-0370     Document Type: Short Survey

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