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    The Hayflick limit, or Hayflick phenomenon, is the number of times a normal somatic, differentiated human cell population will divide before cell division...
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  • This is known as the Hayflick limit. His discoveries overturned a 60-year old dogma that all cultured cells are immortal. Hayflick demonstrated that normal...
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  • Hayflick limit on how many times they can divide. Biologists chose the word "immortal" to designate cells that are not subject to the Hayflick limit,...
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  • species have an upper limit on the number of times somatic cells not expressing telomerase can divide. This is called the Hayflick limit, although this number...
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    species possess 'biological immortality' due to an apparent lack of the Hayflick limit. Some scientists, futurists and philosophers have theorized about the...
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    for the Hayflick limit, which specifies the number of times a normal human cell population will divide before cell division stops. Hayflick's discovery...
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    some point the progeny reach their Hayflick limit, which is believed to be between 50 and 70 cell divisions. At the limit the cells become senescent and cell...
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    cellular division was first observed by Leonard Hayflick, and is now referred to as the Hayflick limit. Significant discoveries were subsequently made...
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    senescent. This process is known as "replicative senescence", or the Hayflick limit. Hayflick's discovery of mortal cells paved the path for the discovery and...
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    Elongation of telomeres by epitalon was sufficient to surpass the Hayflick limit in a cell culture of human fetal fibroblast cells, extending their proliferative...
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    before the DNA loss prevents further division. (This is known as the Hayflick limit.) Within the germ cell line, which passes DNA to the next generation...
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    as the Hayflick limit. Once this limit has been reached, more cells die than can be replaced in the same time span. Thus, soon after this limit is reached...
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  • theory of aging Eternal youth Facial rejuvenation Fountain of Youth Hayflick Hayflick limit Immortality Indefinite lifespan Kayakalpa Life extension Maximum...
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    Carnosine is considered as a geroprotector. Carnosine can increase the Hayflick limit in human fibroblasts, as well as appearing to reduce the telomere shortening...
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    would otherwise become postmitotic and undergo apoptosis to exceed the Hayflick limit and become potentially immortal, as is often the case with cancerous...
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    program, the Hayflick limit, that limits their multiplication to about 60–70 doublings, at which point they reach a stage of senescence. This limit can be overcome...
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    aging and eventual cell death. In this way, the cells circumvent the Hayflick limit, which is the limited number of cell divisions that most normal cells...
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  • probes per cubic parsec) or arbitrary limit (such as ten million within one century), analogous to the Hayflick limit in cell reproduction. One problem with...
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  • and Leonard Hayflick, known for discovering that human cells divide for a limited number of times in vitro (called the Hayflick limit). In 2017, Geron...
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    In humans this occurs, on average, after 52 divisions, known as the Hayflick limit. The cell is then referred to as senescent. With each division the cells...
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  • aging. 1961 Discovery by Leonard Hayflick of the limit of divisions for somatic cells, named the Hayflick limit. Hayflick found that normal human cells,...
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    undergo partial degradation each time a cell undergoes division (see Hayflick limit). In contrast, quiescence is a reversible state of cellular dormancy...
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  • literary competition. Tierney is the author of the full collections The Hayflick Limit, Full Speed Through the Morning Dark, Probably Inevitable, Midday at...
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    Telomerases are necessary to sustain cell division unrestricted by the Hayflick limit of ~50 cell divisions. hESCs express high telomerase activity to sustain...
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    doublings while generally retaining their viability (described as the Hayflick limit). Aside from temperature and gas mixture, the most commonly varied factor...
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    successfully replicated. In the 1960s, Leonard Hayflick and Paul Moorhead proposed the concept of the Hayflick limit, which states that differentiated cells...
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    telomeres, to protect their DNA and extend their cell division limit (the Hayflick limit). Potency specifies the differentiation potential (the potential...
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  • evidence for the Big Bang 1965: Leonard Hayflick: normal cells divide only a certain number of times: the Hayflick limit 1967: Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony...
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  • about 50 cell divisions in laboratory culture (the Hayflick Limit, discovered by Leonard Hayflick in 1961). Hearing loss with age (presbycusis) Teenagers...
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  • Gene mutation theory Genetic control theory Glycation theory of aging Hayflick limit theory Inflammation theory of aging Immunological theory of aging Log-normal...
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