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Psychological stress and aging: role of glucocorticoids (GCs).
Age (Dordrecht, Netherlands) - 1 Dec 2012
Hasan K M Mehedi, Rahman Md Shaifur, Arif K M T, Sobhani Mahbub E
Abstract excerpt
Psychological stress has extreme adverse consequences on health. However, the molecular mechanisms that mediate and accelerate the process of aging due to stress hormone are not well defined. This review has focused on diverse molecular paths that come out in response to chronic psychological stress via releasing of excessive glucocorticoids (GCs), involved in the aging process. GCs suppress transcription of...
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