Sentences with phrase «accumulate damage over time»

Some researchers consider normal aging to be a disease, where our cells accumulate damage over time.

Not exact matches

The damage accumulates over time and results in an organism's increased susceptibility to cancer, or its inability to repair clogged arteries, or a slide into senility.

What happens over time is that those free radicals, they can accumulate and then cause cellular damage.

When this happens, damages to DNA accumulate over time, causing cell damage, mutation and eventually, death.

(9) Indeed, the degenerative aging process is by definition one in which the organism progressively accumulates damage to its cellular and molecular components over time, so any genetic or environmental factor that leads to a greater burden of such damage will bear some resemblance to the aging phenotype, irrespective of the causal origin of the defect or its relationship to «normal» aging.

In addition to disputing the relevance of your source trial (which doesn't appear to offer a duration or suggestion that the tests increase healthy lifespan of the mice in question), I'd like to point out that protection is less beneficial in the long term, because you can not stop damage from occurring completely no matter how well you defend an organelle, and that damage will accumulate over time.

Toxic heavy metals can cause serious damage to the body if left to accumulate over a long period of time.

More damage could accumulate over time as the cell divides, which could lead to colorectal cancer.

But, the mitochondrial theory of aging also asserts that free radicals damage mitochondrial DNA frequently and, over time, the damage accumulates.

Toxic heavy metals can cause serious damage to the body if left to accumulate over a long enough period of time.

Some cases of pancreatitis will heal completely, while others may show damage that accumulates over time, particularly if your pet has had multiple episodes of pancreatitis or particularly severe pancreatitis has developed.

Solar cells don't self - replicate (yet) their performance degrades over time as damage accumulates.