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Serum of youth?

Injured tissues in aged animals are regenerated by exposure to young serum.

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Figure 1: The use of parabiotic mice to assess the influence of the environment of aged animals on muscle regeneration.

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Snoeck, HW. Serum of youth?. Nat Biotechnol 23, 434–435 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0405-434

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