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

<h4>Background</h4>Chronic psychological stress is associated with detrimental effects on physical health, and may operate in part through accelerated cell aging, as indexed by shorter telomeres at the ends of chromosomes. However, not all people under stress have distinctly short telome...

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Main Authors: Eli Puterman, Jue Lin, Elizabeth Blackburn, Aoife O'Donovan, Nancy Adler, Elissa Epel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-05-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/20520771/pdf/?tool=EBI