Dietary restriction and aging.

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The diet-restricted rodent model has been and is a major tool in experimental biogerontology. A spectrum of findings indicates that dietary restriction retards the aging processes of mice and rats, the most salient of which is the increase in mortality rate doubling time. It also maintains many physiological processes in a youthful state and, most strikingly, retards or prevents almost all age-associated disease...

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