ArticleGeroScience2023
Chow diet in mouse aging studies: nothing regular about it.
Article in GeroScience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Purified Diets Lacking Fermentable Fiber Reduce Microbial Diversity, Alter Epithelial Transcriptome, and Exacerbate Colitis.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Long-Term Impact of Western Diet on Right Ventricular Transcriptome: Uncovering Sex-Specific Patterns in C57BL/6J Mice.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Alpha-ketoglutarate mitigates insulin resistance and metabolic inflexibility in a mouse model of Ataxia-Telangiectasia.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Comparing Mediterranean and Western Diets: Cognitive and Microbiota Effects in Middle-Aged Rats.Current developments in nutrition · 2025Article
- Metabolic regulation of immunological aging.Nature aging · 2025Review
- Western Diet and Cognitive Decline: A Hungarian Perspective-Implications for the Design of the Semmelweis Study.Nutrients · 2025Review
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- Timing of standard chow exposure determines the variability of mouse phenotypic outcomes and gut microbiota profile.Lab animal · 2025Article
- Moderate iron deficiency and high dietary iron intake differentially alter hepatic lipid metabolism and adipose tissue lipid handling in mice.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Metabolic Effects of Ketogenic Diets: Exploring Whole-Body Metabolism in Connection with Adipose Tissue and Other Metabolic Organs.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Comparison Between Two Divergent Diets, Mediterranean and Western, on Gut Microbiota and Cognitive Function in Young Sprague Dawley Rats.Gut microbes reports · 2024Article
- Amino acid restriction, aging, and longevity: an update.Frontiers in aging · 2024Review
- The Effects of Chronic Unpredictable Mild Stress and Semi-Pure Diets on the Brain, Gut and Adrenal Medulla in C57BL6 Mice.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Chow diet is used in the majority of rodent studies and, although assumed to be standardized for dietary source and nutritional contents, it varies widely across commercial formulations. Similarly, current approaches to study aging in rodents involve a single-diet formulation across the lifespan and overlook age-specific nutritional requirements, which may have long-term effects on aging processes. Together, these nutrition-based disparities represent major gaps in geroscience research, affecting the interpretation and reproducibility of the studies. This perspective aims to raise awareness on the importance of rodent diet formulation and proposes that geroscientists include detailed descriptions of all experimental diets and feeding protocols. Detailed reporting of diets will enhance rigor and reproducibility of aging rodent studies and lead to more translational outcomes in geroscience research.
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