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Oxidants Are a Major Contributor to Aginga
1 Nov 1992
Abstract excerpt
Very high level oxidative damage to DNA occurs during normal metabolism. In each rat cell the steady-state level of this damage is estimated to be about 10(6) oxidative adducts, and about 10(5) new adducts are formed daily. This endogenous DNA damage appears to be a major contributor to aging and to the degenerative diseases associated with aging such as cancer. The oxidative damage rate in mammalian species with...
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