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SUBMITTER: Villeda SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4224436 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Villeda Saul A SA Plambeck Kristopher E KE Middeldorp Jinte J Castellano Joseph M JM Mosher Kira I KI Luo Jian J Smith Lucas K LK Bieri Gregor G Lin Karin K Berdnik Daniela D Wabl Rafael R Udeochu Joe J Wheatley Elizabeth G EG Zou Bende B Simmons Danielle A DA Xie Xinmin S XS Longo Frank M FM Wyss-Coray Tony T
Nature medicine 20140504 6
As human lifespan increases, a greater fraction of the population is suffering from age-related cognitive impairments, making it important to elucidate a means to combat the effects of aging. Here we report that exposure of an aged animal to young blood can counteract and reverse pre-existing effects of brain aging at the molecular, structural, functional and cognitive level. Genome-wide microarray analysis of heterochronic parabionts--in which circulatory systems of young and aged animals are c ...[more]