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The Smurf transition: new insights on ageing from end-of-life studies in animal models
24 Oct 2017
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Over the past 5 years, many articles were published concerning the prediction of high risk of mortality in apparently healthy adults, echoing the first description in 2011 of the Smurf phenotype, a harbinger of natural death in drosophila. RECENT FINDINGS: These recent findings suggest that the end-of-life is molecularly and physiologically highly stereotyped, evolutionarily conserved and...
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