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Air Pollution Stress and the Aging Phenotype: The Telomere Connection.
Current environmental health reports - 1 Sept 2016
Martens Dries S, Nawrot Tim S
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Aging is a complex physiological phenomenon. The question why some subjects grow old while remaining free from disease whereas others prematurely die remains largely unanswered. We focus here on the role of air pollution in biological aging. Hallmarks of aging can be grouped into three main categories: genomic instability, telomere attrition, and epigenetic alterations leading to altered mitochondrial function...
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