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SHS investigation development is considered from the geographical and historical viewpoint. 3 stages are described. Within Stage 1 the work was carried out in the Department of the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka where the scientific discovery had been made. At Stage 2 the interest to SHS arose in different cities and towns of the former USSR. Within Stage 3 SHS entered the international scene. Now SHS processes and products are being studied in more than 50 countries.
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In 1886 Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) first appeared in the medical literature. An individual with HGPS exhibits many physical characteristics and ailments which are usually associated with the elderly.
F. Scott Fitzgerald published, in 1921, a short story entitled ʻThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button.ʼ The central character of this story is born as an elderly man. It is postulated that Fitzgerald based his character on a real-life individual with HGPS. More importantly, it is theorized that medicine and society has viewed, in the past, these individuals incorrectly. These individuals might actually be experiencing true physical aging in a very accelerated manner.
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Aging, atrophic skin, Benjamin Button, coxa valga, delayed tooth eruption, F. Scott Fitzgerald, farnesyltransferase inhibitors, genetics, Hutchinson- Gilford Progeria syndrome, hypertension, LMNA, mutation, progerin, prominent eyes, tipifarnib, transcription.
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Authors:Bentham Science Books