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SUBMITTER: Recapet C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5014019 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Récapet Charlotte C Sibeaux Adélaïde A Cauchard Laure L Doligez Blandine B Bize Pierre P
Biology letters 20160801 8
Although disruption of glucose homeostasis is a hallmark of ageing in humans and laboratory model organisms, we have little information on the importance of this process in free-living animals. Poor control of blood glucose levels leads to irreversible protein glycation. Hence, levels of protein glycation are hypothesized to increase with age and to be associated with a decline in survival. We tested these predictions by measuring blood glycated haemoglobin in 274 adult collared flycatchers of k ...[more]