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Genotype and age influence the effect of caloric intake on mortality in mice.
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology - 1 Apr 2003
Forster Michael J, Morris Paul, Sohal Rajindar S
Abstract excerpt
Long-term caloric restriction (CR) has been repeatedly shown to increase life span and delay the onset of age-associated pathologies in laboratory mice and rats. The purpose of the current study was to determine whether the CR-associated increase in life span occurs in all strains of mice or only in some genotypes and whether the effects of CR and ad libitum (AL) feeding on mortality accrue gradually or are...
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