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The ability to renew and repair old or destroyed tissue in our body protects us from virtually all interior as well as exterior injuries and is indispensable for us to stay alive. Unfortunately, under certain circumstances the capability of self-repair also exhibits the drawback to be potentially harmful. Day-to-day our genetic material (Deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA) is exposed to physical (UV- or X-Ray radiation) as well as chemical (reactive oxygen species, ROS) factors which are leading to alterations of our DNA sequence known as mutations.
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Dannheisig, D. (2017). Introduction. In: Impact of Survivin Acetylation on its Biological Function. BestMasters. Springer Spektrum, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-18623-4_1
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