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Single-gene mutations and healthy ageing in mammals.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 12 Jan 2011
Bartke Andrzej
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Studies of the effects of single-gene mutations on longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila melanogaster and Mus musculus identified homologous, highly conserved signalling pathways that influence ageing. In each of these very distantly related species, single mutations which lead-directly or indirectly-to reduced insulin, insulin-like growth factor (IGF) or insulin/IGF-like signalling (IIS) can produce...
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