Impact of Bariatric Surgery on the Stability of the Genetic Material, Oxidation, and Repair of DNA and Telomere Lengths

• Main Authors: Franziska Ferk (Author), Miroslav Mišík (Author), Benjamin Ernst (Author), Gerhard Prager (Author), Christoph Bichler (Author), Doris Mejri (Author), Christopher Gerner (Author), Andrea Bileck (Author), Michael Kundi (Author), Sabine Langie (Author), Klaus Holzmann (Author), Siegfried Knasmueller (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Obesity causes genetic instability, which plays a key-role in the etiology of cancer and aging. We investigated the impact of bariatric surgery (BS) on DNA repair, oxidative DNA damage, telomere lengths, alterations of antioxidant enzymes and, selected proteins which reflect inflammation. The study...