Telomere Length Correlates with Life Span of Dog Breeds

Cell Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1530-1536

  Fick, Laura J ^a   Fick, Gordon H ^b   Li, Zichen ^a   Cao, Eric ^a   Bao, Bo ^a   Heffelfinger, Doug ^c   Parker, Heidi G ^d   Ostrander, Elaine A ^d   Riabowol, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Crestwood Veterinary Clinic   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; REPETITIVE DNA; TELOMERASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL AGING; CELL DIVISION; DEATH; DNA DAMAGE; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; TELOMERE; TELOMERE LENGTH;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LONGEVITY; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 84871695985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2012.11.021     Document Type: Article

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