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Article: Age-related decrease in physical ability may be in the genes.
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- Pain & Central Nervous System Week
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new study in mice suggests that declines in physical functioning as we age may be controlled by a handful of genes.
Scientists used to think that physical malfunctions due to aging were caused by a decline in all cells, but newer views suggest that this isn't the case. Rather, the aging process appears to trigger some definite genetic changes in the brain, said Andrej Rotter, the study's lead author and a professor of both pharmacology and neuroscience at Ohio State University.
He and his colleagues compared genes expressed in the cerebellum - the area of the brain that controls posture, balance and muscle ...