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senescence
noun as in old age
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Developing a trusted relationship with an arborist can help with that, and with reading our trees’ health — identifying which ones are moving toward senescence, for example, and require a safe, environmentally sensitive transition plan.
But, “When they persist, they cause havoc,” says Jesús Gil, a cellular senescence expert at Imperial College London who wasn’t connected to the new research.
Many breed once, then die shortly after, either from senescence or predation.
Their reasoning was based on prior work showing that the placenta, a hybrid maternal-fetal organ unique to pregnancy, manifests markers of increased senescence towards the end of pregnancy.
Previous correlative results have also suggested that an MN-mediated innate immune response may slow cellular senescence and suppress cancer.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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