Sentences with phrase «premature aging syndrome»

Salk Institute findings on premature aging syndrome could lead to way of slowing or reversing aging process

He showed the approach works with diseases, including premature aging syndromes, blood disorders and Parkinson's disease.

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If can also lead to ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, higher rates of infection, cancer and premature aging.

When the protein is mutated in Werner syndrome it disrupts the replication and repair of DNA and the expression of genes, which was thought to cause premature aging.

In the study, scientists at the Salk Institute and the Chinese Academy of Science found that the genetic mutations underlying Werner syndrome, a disorder that leads to premature aging and death, resulted in the deterioration of bundles of DNA known as heterochromatin.

Salk Institute researchers discovered that a protein mutated in the premature aging disorder, Werner syndrome, plays a key role in stabilizing heterochromatin, a tightly packaged form of DNA.

In another classical premature aging disease, Werner syndrome (WS), symptoms don't begin until adolescence or early adulthood.

Hutchinson - Gilford syndrome is one of several human progerias; «progeria» means premature aging.

In 1998, Leslie Gordon's toddler son Sam was diagnosed with an exceedingly rare and invariably fatal disease, Hutchinson - Gilford progeria syndrome, which in many ways resembles premature aging.

Her research focused on immunodeficiencies arising in short telomere syndromes, the most common group of premature aging disorders.

Among the diseases more likely to occur in children with older fathers are achondroplasia (which causes dwarfism), progeria (premature aging), Marfan's syndrome (a connective tissue disorder), a predisposition toward a certain type of skin cancer, and some congenital heart defects.

The diet in this book claims to reduce the risks for: acid reflux / GERD, Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, cancer, Crohn's disease, depression, diabetes, digestive ailments, eczema, high blood pressure, hormonal disorders, infertility, inflammation, irritable bowel syndrome IBS, joint pain, migraines, overweight / obesity, Parkinson's disease, polycystic ovarian syndrome PCOS, premature aging, psoriasis, skin conditions, yeast overgrowth

Inflammation may play a role in premature aging, periodontal disease, obesity, skin aging, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, cancer, irritable bowel syndrome, and inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, among many other chronic health concerns.

Jack, the VP for a large pharmaceutical company named Progeia (one portentous letter away from «Progeria,» a syndrome that causes premature aging in children), pops in to get what appears to be his daily pep talk from Dr. Herman Schiller (The Tin Drum's David Bennent, maturing into a facsimile of William Sanderson), the brains behind an AIDS cure just days away from hitting the market.