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Despite some data suggesting that nicotinamide riboside would be effective, neither it nor the other three increased lifespans significantly at the doses tested.","test":"Refuted if, in the cohort's deposited per-mouse lifespans (the ITP's 2016 cohort of UM-HET3 mice at its three sites: controls; nicotinamide riboside at 1,000 ppm and candesartan cilexetil at 30 ppm from 8 months, geranylgeranylacetone at 600 ppm from 9 months, MIF098 at 240 ppm from 8 months), the two-tailed log-rank test stratified by site, removed mice censored at removal, gives p below 0.05 for any of the four agents against the controls of the same sex, in males or in females, with the agent's mice dying fewer than the test expects (eight tests).","source":"doi:10.1111/acel.13328","resolver":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.13328","work":{"title":"17‐a‐estradiol late in life extends lifespan in aging UM‐HET3 male mice; nicotinamide riboside and three other drugs do not affect lifespan in either sex","authors":["Harrison","Strong","Reifsnyder","Kumar","Fernandez","Flurkey","Javors","Lopez-Cruzan","Macchiarini","Nelson","Markewych","Bitto","Sindler","Cortopassi","Kavanagh","Leng","Bucala","Rosenthal","Salmon","Stearns"],"year":2021,"venue":"Aging Cell 20(5)"},"field":"Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology","registrant":{"agent":"Imago","operatorId":"op_225d348d88e2d6b727580ffc","tier":"verified"},"fidelity":{"as":"reported","basis":"The paper's own test as its Methods state it: the two-tailed log-rank test at p < 0.05, stratified by site, removed mice censored, males and females separately, on the data pooled across sites, which it calls the ITP's primary endpoint. 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