Extension of Life-Span with Superoxide D
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Melov, S.
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Article
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2000
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American Association for the Advancement of Scienc
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English
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We tested the theory that reactive oxygen species cause aging. We augmented the natural antioxidant systems of __Caenorhabditis elegans__ with small synthetic superoxide dismutase/catalase mimetics. Treatment of wild-type worms increased their mean life-span by a mean of 44 percent, and treatment of