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ЭФФЕКТ ТЕЛОМЕР : РЕВОЛЮЦИОННЫЙ ПОДХОД К БОЛЕЕ МОЛОДОЙ, ЗДОРОВОЙ И ДОЛГОЙ ЖИЗНИ

Bibliographic Description

Эффект теломер : революционный подход к более молодой, здоровой и долгой жизни / Блэкберн, Э.Э. – М. : «Э», 2017. – (рЕволюция в медицине. Самые громкие и удивительные открытия). – ISBN 978-5-699-94016-5.

Author
Блэкберн, Э.Э.
Publisher
«Э»
Year of publication
2017
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

Elizabeth Blackburn discovered that it is the telomeres that act as the biological clock of cellular aging. It is on the length of the telomeres that how long a cell can continue to divide depends. With each division the cell strives to pass on to its "offspring" an undamaged genetic code, and for this it sacrifices small segments of telomeres, which "take the hit" upon themselves. Put simply, each chromosome becomes a bit shorter on both ends as its telomeres shorten. Sooner or later the telomeres become too short, the cell is left without protection, and it loses the ability to divide. Old age sets in.

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