Mitochondria, its DNA and telomeres in ageing and human population.

abstract：:The mutation level (chromosome aberrations covering telomere regions), modifications of chromosome structure (level of condensed chromatin identified by the methods of electron microscopy and differential scanning microcalorimetry; level of C-banding constitutive heterochromatin; transcriptional activity of DNA-depend...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Lezhava T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a "protein and energy" free radical model of aging that predicts patterns of survival and fertility curves for Mediterranean fruit flies. Mathematical and simulation models of individual physiological processes were constructed in terms of stochastic differential equations. The free radical theory of aging ...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Butov AA,Carey JR,Volkov MA,Sehl ME,Yashin AI

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theory that accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in internal organs is a major promoter of aging has been considered negatively. However, it is still controversial whether overexpression of superoxide dismutases (SODs), which remove ROS, extends the lifespan in Drosophila adults. We examined whether ROS a...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Oka S,Hirai J,Yasukawa T,Nakahara Y,Inoue YH

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With normal aging, the brain undergoes several alterations including reduced neuronal functioning and alterations in glia homeostasis. An increase in inflammatory signaling has also been reported in some studies of the aging brain, with inflammation potentially mediating age-related changes in the brain. Apolipoprotei...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Gee JR,Ding Q,Keller JN

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Associations have been reported between plasma Cu and Zn levels and the incidence of the most important age-related diseases. Previously proposed methods of using plasma Cu/Zn as a predictor of all-cause mortality have been derived from populations in which old and very old subjects were underrepresented. The purpose ...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Malavolta M,Giacconi R,Piacenza F,Santarelli L,Cipriano C,Costarelli L,Tesei S,Pierpaoli S,Basso A,Galeazzi R,Lattanzio F,Mocchegiani E

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reduced adaptation to cold is a prominent feature in aged mammals, including humans. The accelerated senescence-prone strain of mice (SAMP) has been studied as an animal model for several age-associated disorders and in the acceleration of senescence. Recent studies revealed that SAMP strains have dysfunctional hype...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Yamashita Y,Chiba Y,Xia C,Hirayoshi K,Satoh M,Saitoh Y,Shimada A,Nakamura E,Hosokawa M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary theory leads to the general expectation that dietary restriction will often result in increased survival probabilities, and thus increased lifespan. The reaction norm is a basic tool of evolutionary analysis that quantifies the relationship between environmental parameters and functional characters, inclu...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Phelan JP,Rose MR

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging process or senescence affects the expression of a wide range of phenotypic traits throughout the life span of organisms. These traits often show modular, synergistic, and even antagonistic relationships, and are also influenced by genomic, developmental, physiological and environmental factors. The cardiovascula...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Govindaraju DR,Pencina KM,Raj DS,Massaro JM,Carnes BA,D'Agostino RB

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sample size of the data used in genetic studies is often a factor limiting the accuracy of statistical estimates. In this paper we suggest a new approach to evaluation of genetic influence on risk of development of aging-related health disorders. The approach results in substantial improvement of the accuracy of s...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Yashin AI,Arbeev KG,Ukraintseva SV

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4+ T cells are important for generating high quality and robust immune responses to influenza infection. Immunosenescence that occurs with aging, however, compromises the ability of CD4+ T cells to differentiate into functional subsets resulting in a multitude of dysregulated responses namely, delayed viral clearanc...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Lorenzo EC,Bartley JM,Haynes L

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age is the principal nonmodifiable risk factor for stroke. Over the past 10 years, suitable models for stroke in aged rats have been established. At genetic and cellular level there are significant differences in behavioral, cytological and genomics responses to injury in old animals as compared with the young ones. B...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Buga AM,Di Napoli M,Popa-Wagner A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Menopause marks the end of the reproductive life span of women and is characterized by a dramatic drop of circulating estrogen. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has been successfully used to treat the symptoms of menopause because estrogen has strong suppressive effects on climacteric complaints. As the hypothalamo-p...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Böttner M,Wuttke W

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative damage has been proposed as an important factor in the progression of pathological and non-pathological age-related functional declines. Here, we examine functional deterioration in short-lived flies mutant for the mitochondrial antioxidant Manganese Superoxide Dismutase (Sod2). We find that the decline of s...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Piazza N,Hayes M,Martin I,Duttaroy A,Grotewiel M,Wessells R

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary restriction (DR) exerts significant beneficial effects in terms of aging and age-related diseases in many organisms including humans. The present study aimed to examine the influence of long-term DR on the BDNF system at the transcriptional and translational levels in the cortex and hippocampus of middle-aged ...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Smiljanic K,Pesic V,Mladenovic Djordjevic A,Pavkovic Z,Brkic M,Ruzdijic S,Kanazir S

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is associated with functional limitations in muscle performance and increased likelihood of developing a functional disability such as mobility, strength, postural and dynamic balance limitations. The consensus is that obese individuals, regardless of age, have a greater absolute maximum muscle strength compar...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Tomlinson DJ,Erskine RM,Morse CI,Winwood K,Onambélé-Pearson G

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Besides epigenetic factors, the genetic make-up and differential gene expression not only determines aging and disease susceptibility but also the functional activity of cells in an individual. Analysis of a variety of mammalian tissues revealed that the age-associated differentially expressed genes mainly belong to i...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Panda H,Pandey RS,Debata PR,Supakar PC

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to know if insulin-like signalling is involved in the control of oxidative stress in mammalian tissues in relation to aging, ad libitum-fed and caloric restricted Wistar rats were treated during 2 weeks with GH and insulin. The most consistent effect of the hormonal treatments was an increase in plasma IGF-1 ...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Sanz A,Gredilla R,Pamplona R,Portero-Otín M,Vara E,Tresguerres JA,Barja G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the levels of O-linked N-acetyl-glucosamine (O-GlcNAc) on nucleocytoplasmic protein have been associated with a number of age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's and diabetes; however, there is relatively little information regarding the impact of age on tissue O-GlcNAc levels. Therefore, the goal of this ...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Fülöp N,Feng W,Xing D,He K,Nőt LG,Brocks CA,Marchase RB,Miller AP,Chatham JC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) function has been associated with reduced muscle force generation and locomotor function in aging animals. This study was conducted to determine the extent to which aging increased SR stress markers in male rats, and the extent to which volitional exercise affected them. We harvest...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Russ DW,Krause J,Wills A,Arreguin R

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have assessed the impact of vitamin E and exercise on acquisition and retention of spatial memory for a given task in aging rats, using a T-maze. Acetylcholine esterase (AChE) and cholineacetyl transferase (ChAT) activities and acetylcholine (ACh) were measured in the cerebral cortex (CC) of male Wis...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Jolitha AB,Subramanyam MV,Asha Devi S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, extremely low, nanomolar concentrations of the mitochondria-targeted plastoquinone derivative SkQ1 (10-(6'-plastoquinonyl) decyltriphenylphosphonium) were shown to prolong the lifespan of male and female Drosophila melanogaster by about 10 % (Anisimov et al., Biochemistry (Moscow) 73:1329-1342, 2008). Usin...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Krementsova AV,Roshina NV,Tsybul'ko EA,Rybina OY,Symonenko AV,Pasyukova EG

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of oxidative stress (OS) on the rat erythrocytes (RBCs) that were fractionated on the percoll/BSA gradient into young and old cells were studied to find out if the altered Na+/H+ and Cl⁻/ HCO3⁻ antiporters and in turn the intracellular pH (pHi) could act as one of the promoters of cell death. Old cells wer...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Asha Devi S,Shiva Shankar Reddy CS,Subramanyam MV

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells represent a well-established T cell lineage characterised in humans by TCR consisting of an invariant alpha chain encoded by Valpha24-JalphaQ genes, paired preferentially with a Vbeta11 chain. iNKT cells also share some characteristics with NK cells, such as the expression of th...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Peralbo E,DelaRosa O,Gayoso I,Pita ML,Tarazona R,Solana R

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Werner syndrome is the hallmark premature aging disease, where the patients appear much older than their chronological age. The Werner protein, defective in this disorder, is a DNA helicase and an exonuclease, and it participates in pathways of DNA repair, recombination, transcription and replication. The function and...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Bohr VA,Brosh RM Jr,von Kobbe C,Opresko P,Karmakar P

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that a global decrease in food ingestion (dietary restriction, DR) lowers mitochondrial ROS generation (mitROS) and oxidative stress in young immature rats. This seems to be caused by the decreased methionine ingestion of DR animals. This is interesting since isocaloric methionine restriction in the diet (...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Sanchez-Roman I,Gómez A,Pérez I,Sanchez C,Suarez H,Naudí A,Jové M,Lopez-Torres M,Pamplona R,Barja G

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eusocial subterranean rodents of the Bathyergidae family have enormous longevity. The long lifespan of these species is associated with negligible senescence, that is, an absence of the signs of age-related deterioration in physical condition. The question arises as to whether these features are unique to eusocial Bat...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Novikov E,Kondratyuk E,Petrovski D,Titova T,Zadubrovskaya I,Zadubrovskiy P,Moshkin M

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wound healing (WH) is a fundamental biological process. Is it associated with a longevity or aging phenotype? In an attempt to answer this question, we compared the established mouse models with genetically modified life span and also an altered rate of WH in the skin. Our analysis showed that the rate of skin WH in a...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Yanai H,Budovsky A,Tacutu R,Fraifeld VE

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The senescence-accelerated mouse (SAM) prone 8 (SAMP8) has been demonstrated for muscular aging research including sarcopenia, but its underlying mechanisms remain scarce. Physiological indices and histology of skeletal muscle were analyzed in SAMP8 mice at different ages. SAMP8 mice exhibited typical features of sarc...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Liu HW,Chang YC,Chan YC,Hu SH,Liu MY,Chang SJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcopenia-the age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength-is a major public health issue. Sarcopenia is associated with an increased risk of falls, disability, dependency, institutionalization, hospital stay and early death. Finding interventions to stabilize, reverse or prevent sarcopenia is therefore a ke...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Witham MD

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been postulated that the presence of parasites causing high extrinsic mortality may trigger an inducible acceleration of the host aging. We tested this hypothesis using isogenic populations of Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes and different Escherichia coli strains. When exposed to pathogenic bacteria, nematodes...

journal_title：Biogerontology

authors： Baeriswyl S,Diard M,Mosser T,Leroy M,Manière X,Taddei F,Matic I

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00