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Why fasting worms age slowly

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Lipids of the N-acylethanolamine family mediate cell signalling across a wide range of organisms. In nematode worms, they translate food availability into fundamental choices about development that affect lifespan. See Letter p.226

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Figure 1: N-Acylethanolamines, feeding behaviour and lifespan.

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  1. Luciano De Petrocellis and Vincenzo Di Marzo are in the Endocannabinoid Research Group, Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry and Institute of Cybernetics, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli (NA), Italy.,

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De Petrocellis, L., Di Marzo, V. Why fasting worms age slowly. Nature 473, 161–162 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/473161a

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