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The Telomere/Telomerase System in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases. Cause or Effect?
Review in Genes, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 78 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
78 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 138 citations in OpenAlex.
- Contribution of Biological Age-Predictive Biomarkers to Nutrition Research: A Systematic Review of the Current Evidence and Implications for Future Research and Clinical Practice.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Pooled it
- The association of female and male infertility with telomere length (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2019Pooled it
- Telomere-associated non-malignant pulmonary diseases: Pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic strategies.Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2026Review
- Molecular Interplay of Brucellosis and Tuberculosis: Insights into Telomere Biology, Oxidative Stress, and Drug Resistance Mechanisms.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Extracurricular physical activity and telomere length in childhood: findings from the INMA study.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- The Role of Immunosenescence and Inflammaging in the Susceptibility of Older Adults to SARS-CoV-2 Infection.Current pharmaceutical biotechnology · 2026Review
- Leukocyte telomere length mediates the association between SIRI and CKD: insights from NHANES 1999-2002.Renal failure · 2025Article
- Maternal hypertension and telomere length are associated with weight for age Z score change from birth to 6 months of age in a predominantly Latinx cohort.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Major Common Hallmarks and Potential Epigenetic Drivers of Wound Chronicity and Recurrence: Hypothesis and Reflections.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
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- Evolutionarily conserved role of telomerase reverse transcriptase in programming the microenvironment via regulation of the cGAS-STING pathway.Nature cell biology · 2025Article
- The Interplay Between Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Common Pathophysiological Mechanisms Contributing to Telomere Shortening.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Loss of Ten1 in mice induces telomere shortening and models human dyskeratosis congenita.Science advances · 2025Article
- Leukocyte telomere length change in children with obesity in the context of an isocaloric fructose restriction intervention.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2025Article
- The multi-omics signatures of telomere length in childhood.BMC genomics · 2025Article
- Integrating the metabolic and molecular circuits in diabetes, obesity and cancer: a comprehensive review.Discover oncology · 2024Review
- Disparate trajectories of cognitive aging among American Indian and Alaskan Native people with and without HIV.Neuropsychology · 2024Article
- From Crypts to Cancer: A Holistic Perspective on Colorectal Carcinogenesis and Therapeutic Strategies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
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18 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Telomeres are specialized nucleoprotein structures located at the end of linear chromosomes and telomerase is the enzyme responsible for telomere elongation. Telomerase activity is a key component of many cancer cells responsible for rapid cell division but it has also been found by many laboratories around the world that telomere/telomerase biology is dysfunctional in many other chronic conditions as well. These conditions are characterized by chronic inflammation, a situation mostly overlooked by physicians regarding patient treatment. Among others, these conditions include diabetes, renal failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, etc. Since researchers have in many cases identified the association between telomerase and inflammation but there are still many missing links regarding this correlation, the latest findings about this phenomenon will be discussed by reviewing the literature. Our focus will be describing telomere/telomerase status in chronic diseases under the prism of inflammation, reporting molecular findings where available and proposing possible future approaches.
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