Short telomeres in pulmonary fibrosis: From genetics to clinical significance

Pneumologia

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 8-13

  Trəilə, Daniel ^a   Mlədinescu, Ovidiu Fira ^a,b   Oancea, Cristian ^a,b   Tudorache, Voicu ^a,b  

^a Clinical Hospital of Pneumophtysiology and Infectious Diseases 'Victor Babes'   (Romania)

^b VICTOR BABES UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Pulmonary fibrosis; Short telomere lengths; Telomerase mutations

Indexed keywords

GENETIC MARKER; RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE RNA; TERT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HUMAN; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE;

GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RISK FACTORS; RNA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 84925867888     PISSN: 20672993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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