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DNA damage in telomeres and mitochondria during cellular senescence: is there a connection?
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jan 2007
Passos João F, Saretzki Gabriele, von Zglinicki Thomas
Abstract excerpt
Cellular senescence is the ultimate and irreversible loss of replicative capacity occurring in primary somatic cell culture. It is triggered as a stereotypic response to unrepaired nuclear DNA damage or to uncapped telomeres. In addition to a direct role of nuclear DNA double-strand breaks as inducer of a DNA damage response, two more subtle types of DNA damage induced by physiological levels of reactive oxygen...
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