Gut microbiota signatures of longevity - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2016 Sep 26;26(18):R832-R833.

doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.08.015.

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Gut microbiota signatures of longevity

Fanli Kong et al. Curr Biol. 2016.

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Abstract

An aging global population poses substantial challenges to society [1]. Centenarians are a model for healthy aging because they have reached the extreme limit of life by escaping, surviving, or delaying chronic diseases [2]. The genetics of centenarians have been extensively examined [3], but less is known about their gut microbiotas. Recently, Biagi et al.[4] characterized the gut microbiota in Italian centenarians and semi-supercentenarians. Here, we compare the gut microbiota of Chinese long-living people with younger age groups, and with the results from the Italian population [4], to identify gut-microbial signatures of healthy aging.

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