Cancer and aging: two tightly interconnected biological processes

L Berben, G Floris, H Wildiers, S Hatse - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary As life expectancy is increasing, the older population is rapidly growing.
However, older patients with cancer are still underrepresented in clinical trials, making …

Markers of oxidant stress that are clinically relevant in aging and age-related disease

KD Jacob, NN Hooten, AR Trzeciak… - Mechanisms of ageing and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Despite the long held hypothesis that oxidant stress results in accumulated oxidative
damage to cellular macromolecules and subsequently to aging and age-related chronic …

Nitroxides as antioxidants and anticancer drugs

M Lewandowski, K Gwozdzinski - International Journal of Molecular …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Nitroxides are stable free radicals that contain a nitroxyl group with an unpaired electron. In
this paper, we present the properties and application of nitroxides as antioxidants and …

DNA oxidation: investigating its key role in environmental mutagenesis with the comet assay

A Azqueta, S Shaposhnikov, AR Collins - Mutation Research/Genetic …, 2009 - Elsevier
DNA oxidation, which can have potentially serious mutagenic consequences, commonly
accompanies exposure to environmental mutagens. Oxidised bases can be measured …

8-Oxo-7, 8-dihydroguanine: links to gene expression, aging, and defense against oxidative stress

Z Radak, I Boldogh - Free radical biology and medicine, 2010 - Elsevier
The one-electron oxidation product of guanine, 8-oxo-7, 8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoG), is an
abundant lesion in genomic, mitochondrial, and telomeric DNA and RNA. It is considered to …

Oxidized extracellular DNA as a stress signal in human cells

AV Ermakov, MS Konkova, SV Kostyuk… - Oxidative medicine …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The term “cell‐free DNA”(cfDNA) was recently coined for DNA fragments from
plasma/serum, while DNA present in in vitro cell culture media is known as extracellular …

Nuclear DNA damage as a direct cause of aging

BP Best - Rejuvenation research, 2009 - liebertpub.com
This paper presents evidence that damage to nuclear DNA (nDNA) is a direct cause of aging
in addition to the effects of nDNA damage on cancer, apoptosis, and cellular senescence …

[HTML][HTML] Involvement of oxidatively damaged DNA and repair in cancer development and aging

B Tudek, A Winczura, J Janik, A Siomek… - American journal of …, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
DNA damage and DNA repair may mediate several cellular processes, like replication and
transcription, mutagenesis and apoptosis and thus may be important factors in the …

Oxidative stress and 8-oxoguanine repair are enhanced in colon adenoma and carcinoma patients

T Obtułowicz, M Swoboda, E Speina… - …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Oxidative stress is involved in the pathogenesis of colon cancer. We wanted to elucidate at
which stage of the disease this phenomenon occurs. In the examined groups of patients with …

Multimarker screening of oxidative stress in aging

K Syslová, A Böhmová, M Mikoška… - Oxidative medicine …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aging is a complex process of organism decline in physiological functions. There is no clear
theory explaining this phenomenon, but the most accepted one is the oxidative stress theory …