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SUBMITTER: Sharov AA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2426674 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
BMC biology 20080603
<h4>Background</h4>The aging of reproductive organs is not only a major social issue, but of special interest in aging research. A long-standing view of 'immortal germ line versus mortal soma' poses an important question of whether the reproductive tissues age in similar ways to the somatic tissues. As a first step to understand this phenomenon, we examine global changes in gene expression patterns by DNA microarrays in ovaries and testes of C57BL/6 mice at 1, 6, 16, and 24 months of age. In add ...[more]