Dietary purines
Dietary purines has been studied in 1 paper since 2019: none in people yet, 1 in animals. The research so far is in animals. The newest paper, Aug 15, 2019: “A conserved role of the insulin-like signaling pathway in diet-dependent uric acid pathologies in Drosophila melanogaster”.
1 paper studies it1 findingUpdated
See all 1 papers on dietary purines
At a glance
The findings reach worms or flies, none yet in people. 1 lab in 1 country.
Worms or flies: a single group. Cells, mice and humans: nothing yet.
- 1 lab in 1 country
- Funders: American Federation for Aging Research and 8 more
- Model organisms1
What did studies of dietary purines find?
1Studies of dietary purines measured one outcome, lifespan.
Lifespan
downin flies1
1 study
Lifespan
downin flies1
Dietary purines shorten lifespan in flies.
“high levels of dietary purines, but not protein or sugar, were sufficient to produce the same effects of shortened lifespan and concretion formation”
Model organismshigh levels
PLoS genetics