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The data in this study may also be relevant to current efforts to develop a therapeutic AIDS vaccine designed to retard disease progression rather than prevent infection, since they suggest that durable maintenance of low-level viremia may be difficult to achieve.
The rate of reproductive development and the onset of fertility are influenced by an array of environmental factors that can be broadly grouped as physical, nutritional, and social [ 1 ] . Chief among social cues in mammals are priming pheromones that can retard or accelerate sexual development within constraints of factors such as photoperiod and nutritional status of the individual.
In addition, although glucose and, to a lesser extent, sorbitol retard seed germination rates, both additives retard mobilization of storage lipids to a significantly greater extent than seed germination.
"Deciding who to smoke first--the retard or the black guy."
Any, or a combination, of these biological changes may retard aging.