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Telomere Length in Human Adults and High Level Natural Background Radiation

BACKGROUND: Telomere length is considered as a biomarker of aging, stress, cancer. It has been associated with many chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. Although, telomere shortening due to ionizing radiation has been reported in vitro, no in vivo data is available on natural backgrou...

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Autores principales: Das, Birajalaxmi, Saini, Divyalakshmi, Seshadri, M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2793520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20037654
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008440