Article
Effect of dietary restriction on in vivo somatic mutation in mice.
Mutation research - 1 Apr 1993
Dempsey J L, Pfeiffer M, Morley A A
Abstract excerpt
Dietary restriction is the one experimental variable which has been shown reproducibly to retard ageing. The effect of dietary restriction on in vivo mutation was studied in mice by feeding experimental mice 60% of the amount eaten by control mice and measuring mutations in lymphocytes at the hyp...
Topics
- Aging
- Animals
- Diet
- Energy Intake
- Female
- Food Deprivation
- Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase
- Lymphocytes
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mutation