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UF scientists reveal how dietary restriction cleans cells
Date:8/23/2007

tep is to figure out how the proteins can be activated without inflicting dietary stress.

What if we bypass the caloric restriction and find a way of increasing autophagy" asked Dunn. That is, instead of starving yourself you can find another way of enhancing autophagy that will allow the enhanced removal of various damaged organelles that accumulate in aged cells.

Ulf Brunk, M.D., Ph.D., a professor emeritus of experimental pathology at Linkping University in Sweden, said the study builds on past research showing that removal of toxic mitochondria may extend life in a variety of mammals.

The paper is a further step in the direction of showing that the stimulation of autophagy may be beneficial, Brunk said.


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Contact: Ann Griswold
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352-273-5819
University of Florida
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