Counting the calories to immortality
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Counting calories in Drosophila diet restriction.
The extension of life span by diet restriction in Drosophila has been argued to occur without limiting calories. Here we directly measure the calories assimilated by flies when maintained on full- and restricted-diets. We find that caloric intake is reduced on all diets that extend life span. Flies on low-yeast diet are long-lived and consume about half the calories of flies on high-yeast diets...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Reviews Genetics
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1471-0056,1471-0064
DOI: 10.1038/35038524