Affiliation:
1. Gomel State Medical University
2. Gomel Regional Clinical Great Patriotic War Veterans Hospital
Abstract
Life expectancy is a complex factor, and identification of genetic mechanisms of its formation is one of the fundamental problems in developmental biology, evolutionary genetics, and molecular gerontology. The task of the biology of aging includes elucidation of the aging mechanisms, which are diverse and involve mechanical deterioration of organism, elucidation of the genetic features of the structure and functioning of the DNA nucleus and cytoplasmic organelles - mitochondria. Currently mitochondrial genetics is an independent scientific discipline. The discovery of the leading role of mitochondria in sensitivity to drugs, their key role in aging and neurodegenerative disorders of apoptosis led to the creation of mitochondrial medicine, which studies diseases associated with mitochondrial dysfunction.
Publisher
Gomel State Medical University
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