Adipocyte telomere length associates negatively with adipocyte size, whereas adipose tissue telomere length associates negatively with the extent of fibrosis in severely obese women

International Journal of Obesity

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 746-749

  El Bouazzaoui, F ^a   Henneman, P ^a,c   Thijssen, P ^a   Visser, A ^a   Koning, F ^a   Lips, M A ^a   Janssen, I ^b   Pijl, H ^a   Willems Van Dijk, K ^a   Van Harmelen, V ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

adipocyte size; adipocytes; fibrosis; telomeres

Indexed keywords

CD68 ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSE TISSUE TELOMERE LENGTH; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SIZE; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERE; TISSUE EXPANSION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; GENETICS; HYPERTROPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADIPOCYTES; ADULT; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERE;

EID: 84899900149     PISSN: 03070565     EISSN: 14765497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2013.175     Document Type: Article

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