New year, new vitamin C discovery: It 'cures' mice with accelerated ageing disease
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - 09:14
in Health & Medicine
A new research discovery published in the January 2010 print issue of the FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) suggests that treatments for disorders that cause accelerated ageing, particularly Werner's syndrome, might come straight from the family medicine chest. In the research report, a team of Canadian scientists show that vitamin C stops and even reverses accelerated ageing in a mouse model of Werner's syndrome, but the discovery may also be applicable to other progeroid syndromes. People with Werner's syndrome begin to show signs of accelerated ageing in their 20s and develop age-related diseases and generally die before the age of 50...