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Telomere length versus hormonal and bone mineral status in healthy elderly men.
Mechanisms of ageing and development - 1 Oct 2005
Bekaert S, Van Pottelbergh I, De Meyer T, Zmierczak H, Kaufman J M, Van Oostveldt P, Goemaere S
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Telomeres, the termini of linear chromosomes, exert a key role in the process of cellular ageing. Progressive telomere shortening is implicated in senescence in vitro and ample evidence exists to support the hypothesis that telomere length is correlated with chronological age and ageing phenotypes in vivo. In this study, we assessed whether mean telomere length of peripheral blood leukocytes predicts...
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