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Chronic Consumption of Trehalose Reduces Lifespan in Drosophila Model
Yifan Xu1, Xingyou Liu1, Hao Tang1
1College of Artificial Intelligence, Hangzhou Dianzi University, 310018, Hangzhou, China.
Plant Foods for Human Nutrition (Dordrecht, Netherlands)
|January 25, 2023
Abstract:
Trehalose has been widely used as a kind of food additives. But in recent years, with several new studies of trehalose, some harmful effects had also been found. Drosophila melanogaster was used as a model organism to explore whether trehalose affects the lifespan. The results showed that high concentrations of trehalose could significantly shorten the lifespan of female flies by 12.5%, when compared to controls.
