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SUBMITTER: Aschacher T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5795955 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aschacher Thomas T Salameh Olivia O Enzmann Florian F Messner Barbara B Bergmann Michael M
International journal of molecular sciences 20171221 1
Ascending aortic aneurysms are mostly asymptomatic and present a great risk of aortic dissection or perforation. Consequently, ascending aortic aneurysms are a source of lethality with increased age. Biological aging results in progressive attrition of telomeres, which are the repetitive DNA sequences at the end of chromosomes. These telomeres play an important role in protection of genomic DNA from end-to-end fusions. Telomere maintenance and telomere attrition-associated senescence of endothel ...[more]