Caloric restriction improves health and survival of rhesus monkeys

Caloric restriction (CR) delays ageing of model organisms, but whether it works in nonhuman primates has been controversial. Here, the authors pool and reanalyse data from two long-running CR primate studies, concluding that moderate CR indeed improves health and survival of rhesus monkeys.

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Main Authors: Julie A. Mattison, Ricki J. Colman, T. Mark Beasley, David B. Allison, Joseph W. Kemnitz, George S. Roth, Donald K. Ingram, Richard Weindruch, Rafael de Cabo, Rozalyn M. Anderson
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/3a76c66b68f7460284eef313ff046d21
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