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SUBMITTER: Ravera S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6637183 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ravera Silvia S Podestà Marina M Sabatini Federica F Dagnino Monica M Cilloni Daniela D Fiorini Samuele S Barla Annalisa A Frassoni Francesco F
Scientific reports 20190717 1
Aging is a physiological process in which multifactorial processes determine a progressive decline. Several alterations contribute to the aging process, including telomere shortening, oxidative stress, deregulated autophagy and epigenetic modifications. In some cases, these alterations are so linked with the aging process that it is possible predict the age of a person on the basis of the modification of one specific pathway, as proposed by Horwath and his aging clock based on DNA methylation. B ...[more]