Maternal opioid use is reflected on leukocyte telomere length of male newborns.

Opioid use accelerates normal aging in adults that raises a question on whether it may trans-generationally affect aging and aging biomarkers in the offspring of users as well? In the present research, we investigated the relative telomere length in umbilical cord blood of newborns born to opioid co...

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Main Authors: Fatemeh Rahimi Mehdi Abad, Parvin Khalili, Fatemeh Jalali, Ali Pirsadeghi, Ali Esmaeili Nadimi, Azita Manshoori, Zahra Jalali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261013