Early-life stress and reproductive cost: A two-hit developmental model of accelerated aging?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 90, Issue , 2016, Pages 41-47

  Shalev, Idan ^a   Belsky, Jay ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EMBEDDING; HUMAN; MODEL; REPRODUCTION; TELOMERE; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL AGING; CHILD; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; LONGEVITY; MENTAL STRESS; ONSET AGE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURE AGING; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

HORMONE;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGING, PREMATURE; CELL AGING; CHILD; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84960845246     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2016.03.002     Document Type: Article

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