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Article: Chronic Jet-Lag Conditions Hasten Death in Aged Mice.
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- November 6, 2006
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Byline: University of Virginia
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Virginia have found that aged mice undergoing weekly light-cycle shifts - similar to those that humans experience with jet lag or rotating shift work - experienced significantly higher death rates than did old mice kept on a normal daylight schedule over the same eight-week period. The findings may not come as a great surprise to exhausted globetrotting business travellers, but the research nonetheless provides, in rather stark terms, new insight into how the disruption of circadian rhythms can impact well-being and physiology, and how those impacts ...