Telomeres and early-life stress: an overview

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Telomeres and human disease: ageing, cancer and beyond

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Obesity, cigarette smoking, and telomere length in women

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Telomeres and Aging

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Telomeres and telomerase: Their mechanisms of action and the effects of altering their functions

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Telomere length and replicative aging in human vascular tissues.

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The Behavior in Successive Nuclear Divisions of a Chromosome Broken at Meiosis

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Accumulation of single-strand breaks is the major cause of telomere shortening in human fibroblasts

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Telomere shortening and mood disorders: preliminary support for a chronic stress model of accelerated aging

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Exposure to violence during childhood is associated with telomere erosion from 5 to 10 years of age: a longitudinal study

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Telomere Dysfunction: A Potential Cancer Predisposition Factor

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Childhood Adversity and Epigenetic Modulation of the Leukocyte Glucocorticoid Receptor: Preliminary Findings in Healthy Adults

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Cell aging in relation to stress arousal and cardiovascular disease risk factors

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Do US Black Women Experience Stress-Related Accelerated Biological Aging?: A Novel Theory and First Population-Based Test of Black-White Differences in Telomere Length

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Intensive meditation training, immune cell telomerase activity, and psychological mediators

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Childhood Adversity Heightens the Impact of Later-Life Caregiving Stress on Telomere Length and Inflammation

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Leukocyte Telomere Length in Major Depression: Correlations with Chronicity, Inflammation and Oxidative Stress - Preliminary Findings

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Accelerated Telomere Erosion Is Associated with a Declining Immune Function of Caregivers of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients

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Telomeres as Biomarkers for Ageing and Age-Related Diseases

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Stress exposure in intrauterine life is associated with shorter telomere length in young adulthood

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Shortened Telomere Length Is Associated with Increased Risk of Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

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Pediatric Stress: Hormonal Mediators and Human Development

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Reduced telomerase activity in human T lymphocytes exposed to cortisol

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Monocyte Telomere Shortening and Oxidative DNA Damage in Type 2 Diabetes

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Impartial comparative analysis of measurement of leukocyte telomere length/DNA content by Southern blots and qPCR

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Childhood maltreatment and telomere shortening: preliminary support for an effect of early stress on cellular aging

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Telomere length measurement-caveats and a critical assessment of the available technologies and tools

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The power of exercise: buffering the effect of chronic stress on telomere length

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Stress, age, and immune function: toward a lifespan approach

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Telomere lengths are characteristic in each human individual

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Telomere shortening in smokers with and without COPD

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Can Meditation Slow Rate of Cellular Aging? Cognitive Stress, Mindfulness, and Telomeres

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Telomere length and early severe social deprivation: linking early adversity and cellular aging

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The effects of social status on biological aging as measured by white‐blood‐cell telomere length

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Depression gets old fast: do stress and depression accelerate cell aging?

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Adverse events in childhood and chronic widespread pain in adult life: results from the 1958 British Birth Cohort Study

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Telomere biology in healthy aging and disease

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Childhood adversities are associated with shorter telomere length at adult age both in individuals with an anxiety disorder and controls

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Gene–environment interactions: early life stress and risk for depressive and anxiety disorders

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Childhood trauma associated with short leukocyte telomere length in posttraumatic stress disorder

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Childhood Trauma and Risk for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Association With Neuroendocrine Dysfunction

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Telomere length predicts poststroke mortality, dementia, and cognitive decline

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Telomeres and lifestyle factors: Roles in cellular aging.

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Dynamics of telomerase activity in response to acute psychological stress

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Shortened telomere length in white blood cells of patients with IDDM.

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Stress impacts telomere dynamics

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Does cellular aging relate to patterns of allostasis?

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Telomere attrition and Chk2 activation in human heart failure

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Telomere Length, Current Perceived Stress, and Urinary Stress Hormones in Women

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Short Telomeres in Depression and the General Population Are Associated with a Hypocortisolemic State

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Human telomere biology: pitfalls of moving from the laboratory to epidemiology

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Shortened telomeres in individuals with abuse in alcohol consumption

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Telomere length and cognitive function in community-dwelling elders: Findings from the Health ABC Study

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Pessimism correlates with leukocyte telomere shortness and elevated interleukin-6 in post-menopausal women

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Changes in stress, eating, and metabolic factors are related to changes in telomerase activity in a randomized mindfulness intervention pilot study

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Telomere length of patients with major depression is shortened but independent from therapy and severity of the disease

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New Insights in the Etiology and Pathophysiology of Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Contribution of Neonatal Stress Models

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Stress appraisals and cellular aging: A key role for anticipatory threat in the relationship between psychological stress and telomere length

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Telomeres: structure and synthesis.

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The load of short telomeres is increased and associated with lifetime number of depressive episodes in bipolar II disorder

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Telomere length is age-dependent and reduced in monocytes of Alzheimer patients

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Short Telomeres and Prognosis of Hypertension in a Chinese Population

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Fibromyalgia: A Disorder of the Brain?

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Rapid telomere erosion in schizophrenia

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Resting leukocyte telomerase activity is elevated in major depression and predicts treatment response

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Educational attainment but not measures of current socioeconomic circumstances are associated with leukocyte telomere length in healthy older men and women

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Accelerated telomere shortening and senescence in human pancreatic islet cells stimulated to divide in vitro

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Genetic pathway of major depressive disorder in shortening telomeric length

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Leukocyte telomere length is associated with cognitive performance in healthy women

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Socioeconomic status and cell aging in children

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Life Stress, Emotional Health, and Mean Telomere Length in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC)-Norfolk Population Study

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Telomeres and immunological diseases of aging.

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Depression and Leukocyte Telomere Length in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: Data From The Heart and Soul Study

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Telomerase Mediates the Cell Survival-Promoting Actions of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Secreted Amyloid Precursor Protein in Developing Hippocampal Neurons

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Shorter Telomeres May Mark Early Risk of Dementia: Preliminary Analysis of 62 Participants from the Nurses' Health Study

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Shorter Leukocyte Telomere Length in Midlife Women with Poor Sleep Quality

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Childhood Abuse and Migraine: Epidemiology, Sex Differences, and Potential Mechanisms

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Telomere shortening in formerly abused and never abused women.

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Short telomeres in patients with chronic schizophrenia who show a poor response to treatment

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Autonomic and adrenocortical reactivity and buccal cell telomere length in kindergarten children

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