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Abstract
The discovery that rapamycin increased the lifespan of mice was recognized by Science as one of the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2009. In addition to increasing lifespan, Neff and colleagues show that while rapamycin improves several functions/pathologies that change with age, it has little effect on the majority of the physiological and structural parameters they evaluated. What do these data tell us about the ability of rapamycin to delay aging and improve quality of life, i.e., prevent the fate of Tithonus?Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24063054 PMCID: PMC3726178 DOI: 10.1172/jci70800
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Invest ISSN: 0021-9738 Impact factor: 14.808