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Detoxification reactions: relevance to aging.
Ageing research reviews - 1 Dec 2008
Zimniak Piotr
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It is widely (although not universally) accepted that organismal aging is the result of two opposing forces: (i) processes that destabilize the organism and increase the probability of death, and (ii) longevity assurance mechanisms that prevent, repair, or contain damage. Processes of the first group are often chemical and physico-chemical in nature, and are either inevitable or only under marginal biological...
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