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Aging

The gradual changes in the structure and function of humans and animals that occur with the passage of time, that do not result from disease or other gross accidents, and that eventually lead to the increased probability of death as the person or animal grows older. It does not apply to microorganisms.


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Re: Animal cell nucleus shape changes

... progeria. See figure 1 in the following paper for some nuclear membrane images: Scaffidi P, Gordon L, Misteli T (2005) The cell nucleus and aging: Tantalizing clues and hopeful promises. PLoS Biol 3(11): e395. http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0030395

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by jonmoulton
Mon Nov 12, 2012 4:34 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Animal cell nucleus shape changes
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cell

What is cell aging ?Ans me.........

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by greatmona1
Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:55 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: cell
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Views: 744

Why do cells age?

Interesting stuff on aging Tmbirkhead. Coq10, aceytyl carnitine, NADH stuff like that seems to be the way to go based on orthomolecular medicine (Linus Pauling, Abram Hoffer). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naweamfmhUI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5YM-i_7JWw ...

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by jinx25
Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:42 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Why do cells age?
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Views: 6624

Why do cells age?

I see a lot of comments on here about shortening telomeres causing aging. The telomeres are a bit more tricky than that. Telomeres are indeed noncoding regions at the end of DNA that protect the rest of the DNA sort of like the hard part at the end of a shoe-string. ...

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by tmbirkhead
Sun Sep 23, 2012 4:55 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Why do cells age?
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Views: 6624

Re: Why do cells age?

I contend it is the metabolism that resulted in the aging of cells Yeah metabolism is a huge factor.

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by david23
Wed Sep 12, 2012 2:25 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Why do cells age?
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Views: 6624
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