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Molecular and cellular interactions between mother and fetus. Pregnancy as a rejuvenating factor

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Aging is associated with a decline of various body functions, including ability to regenerate. Over recent decades, it has been demonstrated that some of these changes could be reversed in response to factors originating from a young organism, for example, fetal stem cells or “young blood” in models of heterochronic parabiosis. Pregnancy might be considered as parabiotic model of the interaction between two organisms of different age. In this work, we analyzed and summarized data on the effects of pregnancy on the maternal organism that confirm the hypothesis that pregnancy rejuvenates the mother’s organism or slows its aging.

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    V. A. Popkov, D. N. Silachev, S. S. Jankauskas, I. B. Pevzner, E. Y. Plotnikov & D. B. Zorov

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Original Russian Text © V. A. Popkov, D. N. Silachev, S. S. Jankauskas, L. D. Zorova, I. B. Pevzner, V. A. Babenko, E. Y. Plotnikov, D. B. Zorov, 2016, published in Biokhimiya, 2016, Vol. 81, No. 12, pp. 1763–1772.

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Popkov, V.A., Silachev, D.N., Jankauskas, S.S. et al. Molecular and cellular interactions between mother and fetus. Pregnancy as a rejuvenating factor. Biochemistry Moscow 81, 1480–1487 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006297916120099

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