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Dietary restriction in rodents--delayed or retarded ageing?
Mechanisms of ageing and development - 1 Sept 2005
Merry B J
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Dietary restriction (DR) feeding increases survival significantly in strains of rats and mice. There remains however, the question as to whether these two species are always responding in an identical manner to the feeding regime. Enhanced survival can be achieved either through a set-point effect, where there is a change in the elevation of the Ln age-specific mortality rate or, by a decrease in the slope of the...
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