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Germ-free environment

Intervention

2 papers1 finding

C, W, M, H: cells, worms or flies, mice, humans. Dark: independent labs found the same change there. Light: one lab or one study. Outline: nothing yet.

  • 1 lab in 1 country
  • Funder: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
  • Animals2

Outcomes

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Bone matrix

no changein rats1

1 study

  1. Germ-free environment has no effect on bone matrix in rats.

    “dietary restriction and/or a germ-free environment did not alter the measured parameters in each age group, and did not alter or slow the age-related changes in the bone matrix”

    Animalsbone matrixmales

    The effect of food restriction and germ-free environment on age-related changes in bone matrix

    Journal of gerontology1 Sep 1990

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