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Mechanisms and implications of the age‐associated decrease in DNA repair capacity
1 Jul 2000
Abstract excerpt
Skin cancer incidence is clearly linked to UV irradiation and increases exponentially with age. We studied the rate of removal of thymine dimers and (6–4) photoproducts in UV‐irradiated human dermal fibroblasts derived from donors of different ages. There was a significant decrease with aging in the repair rates of both thymine dimers and (6–4) photoproducts ( P < 0.001). In addition, there was an...
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