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The relationship between apoptosis and aging
2012-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Apoptosis is involved in aging and age-related disease, with respect to aging, apoptosis acting in a celltype-specific manner. The rate of apoptosis is elevated in-most types of aging cell populations and organs. In stable cells and certain continuously dividing cells, apoptosisserves to eliminate presumably dysfunctional cellsthat show homeostatic failure due to oxidative stress, glycation, and DNA damage, thereb...
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- Literature Corpus work
- def9acce-9c00-53a8-b816-655da149b3cf
- DOI
- 10.4236/abb.2012.326091
