血蛋白作为单个组织和细胞类型衰老的潜在生物标志物

Daigo Okada1

  • 1Center for Genomic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 53 Syogoin-Kawaramachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan. dokada@genome.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp.

Biogerontology
|September 14, 2023
PubMed
概括

研究人员从单个组织和细胞类型中确定了17种与年龄相关的蛋白质. 这一发现有助于理解组织特异性衰老和血蛋白质组变化.

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