Age-related declines and disease-associated variation in immune cell telomere length in a wild mammal

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Beirne, Christopher ^a   Delahay, Richard ^b   Hares, Michelle ^a   Young, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MALE; MELES MELES; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING; ANIMAL; BOVINE; GENETICS; LEUKOCYTE; LONGEVITY; METABOLISM; MUSTELIDAE; PATHOLOGY; TELOMERE;

MAMMALIA;

AGING; ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; LEUKOCYTES; LONGEVITY; MALE; MUSTELIDAE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 84907494941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108964     Document Type: Article

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