Not exact matches
«It's
still too early to see if this works in humans,» says Rafael de Cabo, an investigator at the National Institute on
Aging who has collaborated with Sinclair and is testing some of Sirtris's compounds in
mice.
At the advanced
age of 20 to 22 months (roughly equivalent to 100 years in humans), the Bax - deficient
mice still maintained hundreds of follicles while normal
mice had none.
Researchers have shown that lowered levels of c - myc can modestly slow
aging and extend life in
mice, with some evidence that this is due to effects on insulin metabolism, though there is a
still a lot of investigation needed to take that as a firm conclusion.
These
mice can move normally, but surprisingly they
still died at a young
age.