A research group led by Professor Hideki Katagiri and Assistant Professor Yutaka Hasegawa at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, has successfully slowed aging of mice and prolonged their life-spans, by suppressing inflammatory responses in vascular endothelial cells.

The research result has been published in Circulation on March 6, 2012.

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[Contact]

(About the research)

Professor Hideki Katagiri

Department of Metabolic Diseases,

Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine

TEL: +81-22-717-8228, FAX: +81-22-717-8169

E-mail: katagiri*med.tohoku.ac.jp (Replace * with @)

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Associate professor Fuji Nagami

Public Relations Office of Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine

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