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Telomere Length in Cardiovascular Disease: New Challenges in Measuring This Marker of Cardiovascular Aging
19 Sept 2011
Abstract excerpt
Atherosclerosis is an age-related systemic disease characterized by systemic oxidative stress and low grade chronic inflammation. Various types of leukocytes play an important role within this process. Telomeres, the ends of chromosomes, shorten during each and every cell division and have therefore been regarded as a cellular clock. Telomere dysfunction has been implicated in aging and senescence, and shorter...
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