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Longevity gene may help rejuvenate the heart by 10 years

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A new study shows that LAV-BPIFB4 gene may exert its cardioprotective effects by promoting the formation of new blood vessels and reducing the number of blood vessel cells that have become senescent and stopped multiplying.

Inducing the expression of LAV-BPIFB4 in aged mice led to improvements in cardiac function that, translated to the human context, would be equivalent to a reduction in the heart’s biological age by 10 years.

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