Sporadic premature aging in a Japanese monkey: a primate model for progeria.

In our institute, we have recently found a child Japanese monkey who is characterized by deep wrinkles of the skin and cataract of bilateral eyes. Numbers of analyses were performed to identify symptoms representing different aspects of aging. In this monkey, the cell cycle of fibroblasts at early p...

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Main Authors: Takao Oishi, Hiroo Imai, Yasuhiro Go, Masanori Imamura, Hirohisa Hirai, Masahiko Takada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111867