Possible treatment for one of the main symptoms of premature aging disease
Monday, June 17, 2013 - 21:30
in Health & Medicine
Working with an animal model, scientists have discovered that a deficit in the production of pyrophosphate provokes excessive vascular calcification, one of the most important symptoms of the premature aging disease Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, also known as progeria. Excess calcium in the arterial wall is also a typical feature of physiological aging in the general population.