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The roles of senescence and telomere shortening in cardiovascular disease

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Telomeres and early-life stress: an overview

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Psychiatric disorders and leukocyte telomere length: Underlying mechanisms linking mental illness with cellular aging

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Major depressive disorder and accelerated cellular aging: results from a large psychiatric cohort study

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Diagnostic utility of telomere length testing in a hospital-based setting

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Alterations of mitochondrial DNA copy number and telomere length with early adversity and psychopathology

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The heritability of leucocyte telomere length dynamics

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Telomere length and cortisol reactivity in children of depressed mothers

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A meta-analytic review of the effects of mindfulness meditation on telomerase activity

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Telomere length measurement as a clinical biomarker of aging and disease

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Mechanisms of telomere loss and their consequences for chromosome instability

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THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN DEPRESSION AND LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH: A META-ANALYSIS

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Cumulative stress in research animals: Telomere attrition as a biomarker in a welfare context?

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Telomere Maintenance Mechanisms in Cancer

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Deterioration of nuclear morphology and architecture: A hallmark of senescence and aging

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Understanding Cancer Development Processes after HZE-Particle Exposure: Roles of ROS, DNA Damage Repair and Inflammation

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Systematic and Cell Type-Specific Telomere Length Changes in Subsets of Lymphocytes

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Epigenetic Drift, Epigenetic Clocks and Cancer Risk

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Telomeres and telomerase as therapeutic targets to prevent and treat age-related diseases

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Depression and suicidality: A link to premature T helper cell aging and increased Th17 cells

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How “reversible” is telomeric aging?

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A Natural Product Telomerase Activator as Part of a Health Maintenance Program: Metabolic and Cardiovascular Response

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Telomere Length in Peripheral Blood Leukocytes and Lung Cancer Risk: A Large Case–Control Study in Caucasians

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Chronic and acute effects of endurance training on telomere length

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Stand up for health—avoiding sedentary behaviour might lengthen your telomeres: secondary outcomes from a physical activity RCT in older people

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Wandering Minds and Aging Cells

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Telomere Length Is Associated with Disability Progression in Multiple Sclerosis

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Heart-Breaking Telomeres

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Telomerase gene therapy ameliorates the effects of neurodegeneration associated to short telomeres in mice

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Meditation, stress processes, and telomere biology

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Anxiety disorders and accelerated cellular ageing

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Crosstalk between telomere maintenance and radiation effects: A key player in the process of radiation-induced carcinogenesis

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No association between mean telomere length and life stress observed in a 30 year birth cohort

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Short-term magnesium deficiency downregulates telomerase, upregulates neutral sphingomyelinase and induces oxidative DNA damage in cardiovascular tissues: relevance to atherogenesis, cardiovascular diseases and aging.

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Mechanisms of breast cancer risk in shift workers: association of telomere shortening with the duration and intensity of night work

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Persistent Herpesvirus Infections and Telomere Attrition Over 3 Years in the Whitehall II Cohort

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Peripheral telomere length and hippocampal volume in adolescents with major depressive disorder

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The longitudinal relationship between cortisol responses to mental stress and leukocyte telomere attrition

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Oxidative stress, telomeres and cellular senescence: What non-drug interventions might break the link?

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Maternal pro-inflammatory state during pregnancy and newborn leukocyte telomere length: A prospective investigation

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Attachment security moderates the link between adverse childhood experiences and cellular aging

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Telomeres, Early-Life Stress and Mental Illness

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An Assessment of Sedentary Time Among Undergraduate Students at a Canadian University

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Accelerated aging in serious mental disorders

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Cellular aging in depression: Permanent imprint or reversible process?

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Stress resilience: Narrative identity may buffer the longitudinal effects of chronic caregiving stress on mental health and telomere shortening

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The molecular biomarkers of vascular aging and atherosclerosis: telomere length and mitochondrial DNA4977 common deletion

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The Effect of Lifetime Cumulative Adversity and Depressive Symptoms on Functional Status

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Telomere length measurement by qPCR in birds is affected by storage method of blood samples

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Movement-Based Behaviors and Leukocyte Telomere Length among US Adults

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Senescence, NK cells, and cancer: navigating the crossroads of aging and disease

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No sex differences in adult telomere length across vertebrates: a meta-analysis

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Maternal Estriol Concentrations in Early Gestation Predict Infant Telomere Length

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Telomere Length is Associated with Sleep Duration But Not Sleep Quality in Adults with Human Immunodeficiency Virus

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Weight Loss Maintenance and Cellular Aging in the Supporting Health Through Nutrition and Exercise Study

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Acute physical exercise and long‐term individual shear rate therapy increase telomerase activity in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells

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An Emergence Framework of Carcinogenesis

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Mitochondria, its DNA and telomeres in ageing and human population

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