Dietary Advanced Glycation End Products and Aging

Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are a heterogeneous, complex group of compounds that are formed when reducing sugar reacts in a non-enzymatic way with amino acids in proteins and other macromolecules. This occurs both exogenously (in food) and endogenously (in humans) with greater concentrati...

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Main Authors: Karen Chapman-Novakofski, Claudia Luevano-Contreras
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2010-12-01
Series:Nutrients
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/2/12/1247/