At Last, A Reason Why Stress Causes DNA Damage
At last, a reason why stress causes DNA damage
For years, researchers have published papers that associate chronic stress with chromosomal damage.
Adrenalin
"We believe this paper is the first to propose a specific mechanism through which a hallmark of chronic stress, elevated adrenaline, could eventually cause DNA damage that is detectable," said senior author Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D., James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at Duke University Medical Center.