Telomeres (eBook, ePUB)

Biomarkers of a Healthy Life and Successful Aging
Redaktion: Tsatsakis, Aristidis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive overview of aging and its mechanisms through the prism of telomere length and its link to lifestyle parameters and environmental pollutants, diseases where telomere length attrition is prominent, and therapeutic approaches to slow down or prevent the process of telomere length reduction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040264959
• Artikelnr.: 72287510

Autorenporträt

Aristidis Tsatsakis is the director of the Department of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences at the Medical School of the University of Crete and the University Hospital of Heraklion, Greece. He is the founder and chief scientific leader of the University of Crete spinoff company ToxPlus S.A. and the startup LifePlus. Prof. Tsatsakis' motivation logo "Toxicology addresses society's real-life risks for sustainable health and wellbeing" is indicated on the EUROTOX 2025 website.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I AGING
1 Aging
PART II TELOMERE LENGTH
2 Telomere Length as a Marker of Biological Age
3 Computational Tools for Telomere Length Measurement
PART III LIFESTYLE
4 The Impact of the First 1000 Days of Human Life on Telomere Length
5 Diet as a Strategy to Lengthen Life Expectancy
6 The First Steps toward Balanced Eating
7 Fasting and Telomeres
8 The Impact of Exercise on Telomere Length
9 Telomere Shortening: A Link between Substances of Abuse and Accelerated
Senescence
10 Telomere Length as Potential Metal Exposure Biomarker: State of the Art
and Perspectives
PART IV DISEASES
11 Telomere's Association with Diseases
12 Telomere Length and Metabolomics in Autoimmune Diseases
13 Osteoarthritis
14 Microbiome
15 Intestinal Microbiota and Human Telomere Length: A Dynamic Crosstalk
between Two Worlds
16 Cardiovascular Diseases and Telomeres
17 Decelerating Cardiovascular Aging: Diet, Exercise, and Medication
18 Male and Female Infertility
19 Telomere Length and Human Carcinogenesis: Liable or Random Finding?
20 Telomere Length Biology in Blood Disorders and Childhood Cancer
21 Skin Aging
PART V THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES
22 Telomeres, Telomerase, and Shelterin Complex: Promising Drug Targets for
Longevity, Age-Related Diseases, and Cancer
23 Therapeutic Targeting of Telomerase