Today, I want to bring you a very interesting video, about a research of diseases like Alzheimer, Parkinson and Cancer. Please click down here:
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/telediario/telomerasa-enzima-eterna-juventud/2564480/
Ana Blanco (Spanish Television Presenter): “Diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's are caused by the deterioration and death of neurons (nerve cells); but in the case of Cancer, the damaged cells are not only not die, but get themselves strong and divide indefinitely. The key is tiny structures, called "Telomeres".......... The National Cancer Research Centre spent years investigating how telomeres can be maintained, in good condition, to delay age-related diseases cellular.”
Maria Blasco: “The key is to understand why some young bodies maintain telomeres longer, and why others do not. And there are genetic and environmental factors”.
Ana Blanco (voice in off): “In mice, already has been gotten activate the Telomerase (the enzyme of eternal youth)”.
Voice in off: “These are the chromosomes in a cell; they save, inside, our DNA, our genes. The ends of the chromosomes are protected by a kind of caps, called "telomeres". Each time a cell is divides --and it does it about 50 times, throughout a life--, the telomeres are worn; it is easy to understand, if we think of the rubber that holds a braid: when it is broken, the braid is undone; when telomeres are shorten, cells stop dividing and grow old or die, thus causing degenerative, cardiovascular diseases .... The telomere attrition also increases the risk of cancer; but in this case, the malignant cells get become immortal”.
Maria Blasco (CNIO Director and expert on Telomeres): “The cells of cancer are survivors. They shoud have died, because they have many years and many changes; but with combinations of genes, that are optimal for these cells, have survived and have gotten further divided; and they make that, waking up again Telomerase".
Voice in off: “Telomerase is a substance that repairs telomeres; it is present in embryonic development; but, when we are born, we stop producing it, in most cells. Maria Blasco's team has managed to activate Telomerase, in adult mice, and delay the onset of diseases and has done so also without feeding potential tumor cells”.
Maria Blasco: “The strategy we used was made on purpose, so that any cell that the normal number of divisions escaped, automatically remove Telomerase. In this way we also block the appearance of the Cancer”.
Voice in off: “Another team of the CNIO, is working directly with patients of hereditary breast cancer, has been found that chemotherapy can act on telomeres”.
Ana Osorio (Researcher of the CNIO): “Eso es lo que parecen indicar nuestros resultados: while patients are on treatment period, telomeres are shortened; once been a while, after treatment, they turn to recover”.
Voice in off: “Overall, What determines that a person's telomeres are maintained or shorten rapidly and cause many diseases?. It is known that our genetic inheritance influences by 20% and the remainder (80%) dependent on environmental factors. The stress shortens telomeres and also lack of exercise, snuff, poor nutrition ...; Obesity is also associated with telomeres. Our biological age does not have to match that of the DNI, and these scientists are not working for immortality, but for the youth of our body”.
Maria Blasco: “Trying to make the most of the time we are living healthy and young, and no disease is something that has been achieved in animals and I think they also will be moved to human”.
Voice in off: “But still we shall take a long time to sse that”.
Well. I hope this type of discovery is a normal thing in future.
Till soon, kind regards,
Luis.
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