Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 21st 2018

In conclusion, the connection between DNA damage and aging is emphasized by the secretion of senescence-associated proteins during cellular senescence, a phenotype which is activated by DNA damage and is common for both human and mice. Though much progress has been achieved, full understanding of these mechanisms has still a long way to go. XPO1 as a Novel Target for Therapies to Enhance Autophagy https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/05/xpo1-as-a-novel-target-for-therapies-to-enhance-autophagy/ Autophagy is the name given to a collection of cellular housekeeping processes that recycle damaged and unwanted proteins and structures inside a cell. Most of the means of slowing aging demonstrated in laboratory species involve increased autophagy: it is an important response to any form of stress likely to result in more damage inside the cells. The less damage there is, the better off the cells. This in turn can leads to a longer, healthier life span to some degree. It is also worthy of note that autophagy declines with age, and this is though important in a range of age-related conditions. Autophagy enhancement therapies have been on the research community agenda for a long time now. There have been scores of papers published on this topic in the last decade alone, even putting to one side the point that all calorie restriction mimetic development is likely based on increased levels of autophagy somewhere under the hood. Unfortunately, means of dire...
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