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Oxidative stress and aging in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Free radical research - 1 Dec 2000
Ishii N
Abstract excerpt
Much attention has been focused on the hypothesis that oxidative damage plays in cellular and organismal aging. A mev-1 (kn1) mutant of Caenorhabditis elegans, isolated on the basis of its methyl viologen (paraquat) hypersensitivity, is also hypersensitive to elevated oxygen levels. Unlike the wild type, its life span decreases dramatically as oxygen concentrations are increased from 1% to 60%. Strains, which...
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