Anti-aging Flashcards
Anti-aging techniques don’t lengthen our lifespan but rather make us less prone to _
Age-related diseases
(Cancers, Alzheimer’s)
Aging is gradual _ of adult body over time
Deterioration
Aging body subject to all kinds of damages, importantly, damages at _ level
Molecular
Chemicals called _ created by normal processes inside cells, cause damage to DNA
Reactive oxygen species
Aging also related to _
Cell division
In phenomenon known as _ individual cells grow older each time they divide and eventually stop dividing
Cellular senescence
In cellular senescence, individual cells grow older each time they divide and eventually _
Stop dividing
Cells begin to deteriorate after about _ rounds of division
50
Cellular senescence triggered by damage but also by _
Shrinking regions at end of chromosomes
Regions at end of chromosomes that are shrunk are called _
Telomeres
Telomere is a _
Protective, non-coding end of chromosome
