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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MDPI AG
2010-12-01
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Series: | Nutrients |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/2/12/1247/ |