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Abstract
It is proposed that biological aging mainly depends on a deleterious accumulation of insoluble inert protein that has escaped physiological proteolytic degradation. Intracellularly, a three-dimensional network of polypeptide chains may exclude macromolecular structures and organelles from part of the cytosolic water. In this way vital intracellular transport mechanisms may be obstructed, providing a rationale to several observations linked to aging.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12237567 DOI: 10.1023/a:1020155502734
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biogerontology ISSN: 1389-5729 Impact factor: 4.277