Reproductive Benefit of Oxidative Damage: An Oxidative Stress 'Malevolence'?

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العنوان: Reproductive Benefit of Oxidative Damage: An Oxidative Stress 'Malevolence'?
المؤلفون: Poljsak, B., Milisav, I., Lampe, T., Ostan, I.
المصدر: Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity.
بيانات النشر: Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2011.
سنة النشر: 2011
مصطلحات موضوعية: Article Subject
الوصف: High levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) compared to antioxidant defenses are considered to play a major role in diverse chronic age-related diseases and aging. Here we present an attempt to synthesize information about proximate oxidative processes in aging (relevant to free radical or oxidative damage hypotheses of aging) with an evolutionary scenario (credited here to Dawkins hypotheses) involving tradeoffs between the costs and benefits of oxidative stress to reproducing organisms. Oxidative stress may be considered a biological imperfection; therefore, the Dawkins' theory of imperfect adaptation of beings to environment was applied to the role of oxidative stress in processes like famine and infectious diseases and their consequences at the molecular level such as mutations and cell signaling. Arguments are presented that oxidative damage is not necessarily an evolutionary mistake but may be beneficial for reproduction; this may prevail over its harmfulness to health and longevity in evolution. Thus, Dawkins' principle of biological “malevolence” may be an additional biological paradigm for explaining the consequences of oxidative stress.
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اللغة: English
تدمد: 1942-0900
DOI: 10.1155/2011/760978
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=hindawi_publ::10a9fa0f12cca97befc4c9724cad6b40
Rights: OPEN
رقم الانضمام: edsair.hindawi.publ..10a9fa0f12cca97befc4c9724cad6b40
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
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تدمد:19420900
DOI:10.1155/2011/760978