Assertion: telomere | /r/CapableOf | decrease in length
Facets:
value: with age
type: OTHER
value: much faster
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: As you age, your LTL’s become shorter, but if you suffer from chronic inflammation, your telomeres decrease in length much faster, because your body’s inflammatory response accelerates leukocyte turnover.
text: Reiterating, telomeres are essentially biological clocks that decrease in length with age, and once a critically shortened telomere length is attained, cellular senescence may be activated.