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Is rate of skin wound healing associated with aging or longevity phenotype?
Biogerontology - 1 Dec 2011
Yanai Hagai, Budovsky Arie, Tacutu Robi, Fraifeld Vadim E
Abstract excerpt
Wound healing (WH) is a fundamental biological process. Is it associated with a longevity or aging phenotype? In an attempt to answer this question, we compared the established mouse models with genetically modified life span and also an altered rate of WH in the skin. Our analysis showed that the rate of skin WH in advanced ages (but not in the young animals) may be used as a marker for biological age, i.e., to...
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