Ageing - Mice and mitochondria

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Martin, GM [1 ]
Loeb, LA [1 ]
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[1] Univ Washington, Dept Pathol, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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10.1038/429357a
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
It can be hard to work out whether particular events are a cause or a correlate of ageing — do mutations in mitochondrial DNA, for instance, speed up the process of growing old? Some clever studies suggest so.
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