Volume 24, No 12, Dec 2014
ISSN: 1001-0602
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018
impact factor 17.848*
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Volume 24 Issue 12, December 2014: 1381-1382
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
An ingredient for the elixir of youth
Rebecca E Andersen1,2,3 and Daniel A Lim1,2,4
1Department of Neurological Surgery, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
2Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
3Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
4San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
Correspondence: Daniel A Lim,(LimD@neurosurg.ucsf.edu)
Emerging evidence indicates that there are factors within the blood of young animals that have the ability to restore youthful characteristics to a number of organ systems in older animals. Growth/differentiation factor 11 (GDF11) is the first of such factors to be identified, and two new studies demonstrate that this “factor of youth” rejuvenates stem cells found in the skeletal muscle and brain of aged mice.
10.1038/cr.2014.107
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