Telomere length in elderly caucasians weakly correlates with blood cell counts

The Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gutmajster, Ewa ^a   Witecka, Joanna ^a   Wyskida, Magdalena ^a   Koscinska Marczewska, Justyna ^a   Szwed, Malgorzata ^b   Owczarz, Magdalena ^b,c   Mossakowska, Malgorzata ^c   Milewicz, Andrzej ^d   Puzianowska Kuznicka, Monika ^b,e   Zejda, Jan ^a   Wiecek, Andrzej ^a   Chudek, Jerzy ^a   Sieron, Aleksander L ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^d WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e MEDICAL CENTER FOR POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CAUCASIAN; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MULTICENTER STUDY; POLAND; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; AGING; DNA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; POLAND; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

EID: 84893834570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/153608     Document Type: Article

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