Sentences with phrase «mechanisms behind ageing»

This is important, because oxidative damage is believed to be one of the key mechanisms behind ageing and many diseases.

Research on lowly creatures such as fruit flies and roundworms is also playing an important part in exposing the mechanisms behind ageing and, once again, it is free radicals that are implicated as prime suspects.

In this case, he was testing the idea that a buildup of cellular damage caused by oxidation — technically, the chemical removal of electrons from a molecule by highly reactive compounds, such as free radicals — is the main mechanism behind aging.

Not exact matches

Ron Duman and colleagues at Yale University began their search for a mechanism behind depression by comparing post-mortem brain samples from 21 people who had been depressed and 18 people of the same age.

Eric Kandel of Columbia University in New York and colleagues were interested in understanding the mechanisms behind normal age - related memory loss.

Included are talks on mechanisms of aging in a wide range of established and non-traditional animal models with the key objective to enhance understanding of the basic biology behind experimental and lifestyle manipulations thought to have direct translational application to human aging.

The exception is this new research, published March 22 in Cell, which identifies the key cellular mechanisms behind vascular aging and the key role it plays on muscle health.