Q-FISH Measurement of Hepatocyte Telomere Lengths in Donor Liver and Graft after Pediatric Living-Donor Liver Transplantation: Donor Age Affects Telomere Length Sustainability

• Youichi Kawano ,

  * E-mail: y-kawano@nms.ac.jp (YK); naoshi@tmig.or.jp (NI)

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan, Research Team for Geriatric Pathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Naoshi Ishikawa ,

  * E-mail: y-kawano@nms.ac.jp (YK); naoshi@tmig.or.jp (NI)

  Affiliation Research Team for Geriatric Pathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Junko Aida,

  Affiliation Research Team for Geriatric Pathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yukihiro Sanada,

  Affiliation Department of Transplant Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan

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• Naotaka Izumiyama-Shimomura,

  Affiliation Research Team for Geriatric Pathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Ken-ichi Nakamura,

  Affiliation Research Team for Geriatric Pathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Steven S. S. Poon,

  Affiliation Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Koshi Matsumoto,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathology, Ebina General Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Koichi Mizuta,

  Affiliation Department of Transplant Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan

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• Eiji Uchida,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takashi Tajiri,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hideo Kawarasaki,

  Affiliation Department of Transplant Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan

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• Kaiyo Takubo

  Affiliation Research Team for Geriatric Pathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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