Heroin abuse accelerates biological aging: a novel insight from telomerase and brain imaging interaction

Heroin abuse and natural aging exert common influences on immunological cell functioning. This observation led to a recent and untested idea that aging may be accelerated in abusers of heroin. We examined this claim by testing whether heroin use is associated with premature aging at both cellular an...

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Autores principales: Cheng, G L F, Zeng, H, Leung, M-K, Zhang, H-J, Lau, B W M, Liu, Y-P, Liu, G-X, Sham, P C, Chan, C C H, So, K-F, Lee, T M C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3669923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23695235
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/tp.2013.36

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