Aging
Researchers from University Pompeu Fabra describe findings in aging
Published in Aging and Elder Health Week, February 18th, 2007
A new study, "Aging, sex differences, and oxidative stress in human respiratory and limb muscles," is now available. "Oxidative stress is involved in the sarcopenia of aging muscles. On the grounds that ventilatory muscles are permanently active, and their activity may even increase with aging, we hypothesized that the levels of oxidative stress would probably be increased in the external intercostals of elderly healthy individuals," scientists writing in the journal Free Radical Biology & Medicine report.
"We conducted a case-control study in which reactive carbonyl groups, malondialdehyde-protein adducts, 3-nitrotyrosine immunoreactivity, Mn-superoxide...
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