Increasing Telomerase To Save You From Stress

The more stressed behavior the rats showed, the more telomerase activity they had. Now, this doesn’t mean that stress directly causes telomerase activity or that telomerase activity causes stress. But it could mean that increased telomerase activity is one way for cells to deal with the difficulties of stress, increasing telomerase activity to protect the DNA from excessive destruction, and protect cells from senescence. It would be interesting to see if increasing telomerase activity prior to stress could protect animals from the effects of stress (like, say, the effects of stress on neurogenesis, where stress causes major decreases). But for now, it’s another role for telomeres, and for telomerase. Protecting your telomeres to save you from stress.

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