PapersPMID:20080168
Açai palm fruit (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) pulp improves survival of flies on a high fat diet.
What moved
1 findingHow to read these marks →- Increases organism lifespan
insufficient
“We found that supplementation of 2% açai pulp initiated at adult age of 3 and 6 days old significantly increased lifespan of female flies by approximately 18% compared to the non-supplemented control in both experiments (and Table 1).”
- Study
- animal · not in humans
- Interests
- Industry funded
- Dose studied
- 2% (w/v) of the food, for the rest of adult life
- Population
- Female Drosophila melanogaster with ubiquitous sod1 RNAi (da-Gal4/sod1IR), fed the standard sugar-yeast diet, supplementation started at adult age 3 or 6 days; fly model, not a human finding
Study record
- Design
- animal study, in vivo
- Species
- animal
- Population
- Drosophila melanogaster Canton S wild type and sod1 RNAi adult flies, males and females, on sugar-yeast diet with or without 2% palmitic acid
- Participants
- not reported
- Comparator
- no treatment
- Duration
- not reported
- Endpoints measured
- 17