Aging by telomere loss can be reversed

2014-08-29

Aging by telomere loss can be reversed


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Abstract
Recently in Nature, Jaskelioff et al. (2010) demonstrated that multiple aging phenotypes in a mouse model of accelerated telomere loss can be reversed within 4 weeks of reactivating telomerase. This raises the major question of whether physiological aging, likely caused by a combination of molecular defects, may also be reversible.

Some notes
small molecule telomerase acti-
vators have been reported recently and
have demonstrated some preliminary
health-span bene?cial effects in humans