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Inadequate Sleep May Exacerbate Aging Monday, June 30, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown that the unfolded protein response, which is a reaction to stress induced by sleep deprivation, is impaired in the brains of old mice. The findings suggest that inadequate sleep in the elderly, who normally experience sleep disturbances, could exacerbate an already-impaired protective response to protein misfolding that happens in aging cells. (source: uphs.upenn.edu)
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