Neighborhood disorder and telomeres: Connecting children's exposure to community level stress and cellular response

Our objective was to explore the utility of salivary telomere length (sTL) as an early indicator of neighborhood-level social environmental risk during child development. We therefore tested the hypothesis that sTL would be associated with markers of social stress exposure in children. Children age...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Social science & medicine (1982) 2013-05, Vol.85, p.50-58
Hauptverfasser:	Theall, Katherine P., Brett, Zoë H., Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A., Dunn, Erin C., Drury, Stacy S.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Average telomere length Biological and medical sciences Biomarkers Body fluids Child Child Development - physiology Child, Preschool Children Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA Female General aspects Human exposure Humans Male Medical sciences Miscellaneous Neighborhood New Orleans Pediatrics Polymerase chain reaction Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Residence Characteristics - statistics & numerical data Risk Factors Saliva - cytology Social Environment Stress Stress, Psychological - physiopathology Telomere Telomere - ultrastructure Urban Population - statistics & numerical data
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