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Nature Medicine 14, 713 - 715 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm0708-713
Rejuvenating premature aging
Eran Meshorer1 & Yosef Gruenbaum1
- Eran Meshorer and Yosef Gruenbaum are in the Department of Genetics, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Girat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
e-mail: meshorer@cc.huji.ac.il or e-mail: gru@vms.huji.ac.il
Abstract
Two commonly prescribed drugs, statins and aminobisphosphonates, may be helpful in combating the rare aging disorder, Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (pages 767–772).
New findings in this issue of Nature Medicine1 provide insight into a potential treatment for Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), an extremely rare disease in which young children appear to age rapidly. The disease is caused by point mutations in the gene encoding the nuclear structural proteins lamin A and lamin C.
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