Caloric Restriction Baste on 02 Feb 2007 06:00 pm
Is Smelling a Matter of Life and Death?
In the February 01, 2007 edition of Sciencexpress, Libert et al. report on the regulation of Drosophila life span by olfaction and food-derived odors.
Image taken from:
http://athens.uchicago.edu/~lenka/images/drosophila-head.jpg
Caloric (dietary) restriction has been shown to modulate the lifespan of many different species, such as Drosophila m., C. elegans or rodents.
I find the fact that exposure to nutrient-derived odorants itself modulates lifespan quite intriguing and recommend for further reading the following two links: Science and The Scientist