Restoring ability to remove zombie cells may keep us sharp as we age. Zombie, or senescent, cells accumulate in our body with age, when we become less able to clear them.
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Trechos de apoio da pauta: Transmission electron micrograph of human neutrophils, immune cells that can turn rogue with ageROSSANA MELO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY As we age, our body loses its ability to clear out zombie-like cells that have stopped dividing, instead dripping out poison and turning other cells rogue. Restoring the ability to remove these “senescent” cells prevented signs of cognitive decline and frailty in older mice, with hints that the same outcomes could occur in people.
- Ponto de atenção: restoring.
- Ponto de atenção: ability.
- Ponto de atenção: remove.
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