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Chromosomal Instability and Aging Basic Science and Clinical Implications
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CRC Press
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This text examines the relationship between DNA damage and repair, cellular senescence, genomic instability, and aging. The authors provide in-depth discussions of various types of DNA damage, the DNA repair network, and cellular responses to genetic damage to assess their impact on the modulation of aging processes and age-related diseases, includ
Introduction to the pathobiology of ageing; overview of chromosomal instability and ageing mechanisms. Replicative senescence, telomere regulation and chromosomal instability: cell senescence; telomere shortening and replicative ageing; telomere regulation in eukaryotic cells. Human premature ageing and chromosomal instability syndromes: Werner syndrome; Bloom syndrome - genetic, cellular and molecular features as compared to Werner syndrome; molecular biology of Rothmund-Thomson syndrome; molecular biology of Rothmund-Thomson syndrome. Ageing in model organisms: genomic instability and yeast ageing; the genetics of ageing in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans; ageing, somatic maintenance, and genome stability Drosophilia melanogaster.
Biography
Fuki Hisama, Sherman M. Weissman, George M. Martin
