Abstract：
:Long-Evans female rats three weeks, three months and 13-14 months of age were placed on tryptophan-deficient diets for periods ranging from a few months to nearly two years. Growth was interupted during the period of tryptophan-deficiency, but when the animals were returned to a complete diet, they gained weight and grew to normal size. Ability to reproduce, as indicated by litter production, was present at 17-28 months of age in rats which had been deprived of tryptophan, whereas no controls over 17 months of age produced any offspring. Other signs of delayed aging in the experimental group included, at advanced ages, greater longevity, as well as later onset in the appearance of obvious tumors, and better coat condition and hair regrowth. Many of these effects were also seen in pair-fed controls (fed a diet equal in amount to that eaten by the tryptophan-deprived rats, but with 1-tryptophan added). It is hypothesized that tryptophan deficiency delays growth, development and maturation of the central nervous system (CNS), in particular, by decreasing the levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin, for which tryptophan is the necessary precursor. In a parallel experiment, chronic treatment with d, 1-parachlorophenylalanine, an inhibitor of brain serotonin synthesis, from weaning until adulthood, also inhibited growth (body weight) and delayed sexual maturation (age of vaginal opening). These observations suggest that diets deficient in tryptophan or restricted in calories can affect maturation and aging by interfering with CNS protein synthesis, or neurotransmitter metabolism, or both.
journal_name
Mech Ageing Devjournal_title
Mechanisms of ageing and developmentauthors
Segall PE,Timiras PSdoi
10.1016/0047-6374(76)90012-9subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1976-03-01 00:00:00pages
109-24issue
2eissn
0047-6374issn
1872-6216pii
0047-6374(76)90012-9journal_volume
5pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:Age-related changes in regulation of receptor response have been observed in several tissues and include regulation of beta-adrenergic receptor (beta-receptor) responses. The role of cellular aging in age-related changes in receptor response is not clear. We have examined the effect of aging in vitro on human fibrobla...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(92)90003-v
更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In most species, females live longer than males. An understanding of this female longevity advantage will likely uncover novel anti-aging therapeutic targets. Here we investigated the transcriptomic responses in the hypothalamus - a key organ for somatic aging control - to the introduction of a simple aging-related mo...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2019.111150
更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:T cell activation involves events at the plasma membrane; therefore, molecules such as long chain omega-3 fatty acids that alter the structure of the plasma membrane may affect the activation of aged T cells. In this project we investigated whether the incorporation of omega-3 fatty acids (from fish oil), in the prese...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(94)90079-5
更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:BCL-2 functions as a death repressor molecule in an evolutionary conserved cell death pathway. Inactivation of bcl-2 in mice results in pleiotropic effects including postnatal growth retardation, massive apoptosis in lymphoid tissues, polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and shortened lifespan. To evaluate the influence of...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2006.02.009
更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:An established senescence-accelerated model mouse strain, SAMP8, shows the deterioration of learning and memory compared with a normal control strain, SAMR1. D-Serine binds to strychnine-insensitive glycine binding sites of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor complex, and enhances glutamate binding to the recepto...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(98)00059-1
更新日期：1998-08-14 00:00:00
abstract：:A nuclease that releases noncomplementary nucleotides from the 3'-end of DNA was isolated and highly purified from rat liver extract. The d(T9-C) priming activities for DNA synthesis in vitro by DNA polymerases alpha and beta were recovered by the addition of this enzyme, which itself does not contain a DNA polymerase...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(97)00114-0
更新日期：1998-01-12 00:00:00
abstract：:The lifespan of the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, can be extended by mutations affecting components of the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signaling cascade or by overexpression of SIR2, an NAD+-dependent protein deacetylase. The mammalian homologue of SIR2, Sirt1, has been shown to modulate the activity of FoxO,...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2005.04.006
更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this paper, I attempt to address the problem of how to model the survival curve in the early lifespan years; the neonatal years. I present a general model for a two group population in which the first group represents early stage failure and the second group represents the classical Gompertzian failure. After calcu...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(86)90026-6
更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Mouse mammary gland displays an irreversible decline in growth rate when propagated by serial transplantation in gland-free mammary fat pads of isogeneic mice. Because transplanted fragments of gland contain both mammary epithelial and stromal elements, the present study was undertaken to distinguish between two possi...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(83)90026-x
更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Social isolation (SI) is a major health risk in older people leading to cognitive decline. This study examined how SI and age influence performance in the novel object recognition (NOR) and elevated plus maze (EPM) tasks in C57BL/6 mice aged 3 or 24 months. Mice were group-housed (groups of 2-3) or isolated for 2 week...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2020.111337
更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:It has been shown in several studies that 2-mercaptoethanol (2-ME) improves the life span and aspects of life performance of laboratory animals. To obtain further details on the beneficial effects of 2-ME, a long-term study has been performed on male CBA/Ca inbred mice treated with this antioxidant. Four month-old mic...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(88)90021-8
更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The survival rate was measured of differently aged rabbit erythrocytes that had been taken from young and old animals, tagged with 51Cr and injected into young and old animals. The survival rate of the donor erythrocytes depends mostly on the age of the recipient animals. The life span of the injected cells found in o...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(81)90063-4
更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Replicative senescence in human diploid fibroblasts is characterised by an exhaustion of proliferative potential and permanent cell cycle arrest. During senescence, telomere shortening-generated DNA damage activates p53 pathway that upregulates cell cycle inhibitors, such as p21. Human p400 ATPase is a chromatin remod...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2012.11.001
更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The effects of long-term caloric restriction on the hepatic phase II drug metabolizing enzymes were investigated in the male Fischer 344 rat. Rats that had been restricted to 60% of their pair-fed control consumption from 14 weeks post-partum exhibited altered conjugating enzyme activities at 22 months. Caloric restri...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(89)90047-x
更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The binding of the lectin Concanavalin-A (Con-A) to crystallins was investigated. For this purpose, human fetal and juvenile lens crystallins were isofocused and specifically stained brown for glycoproteins by the lectin Con-A, and purple by the periodic acid Schiff's reagent (PAS). In reference experiments protein ba...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(97)00097-3
更新日期：1997-12-30 00:00:00
abstract：:Semantic distinctions between "normal" aging, "pathological" aging (or age-related disease) and "premature" aging (otherwise known as segmental progeria) potentially confound important insights into the nature of each of the complex processes. Here we review a recent, unexpected discovery: the presence of longevity-as...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2006.11.011
更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Perceived age is an easily accessible biomarker of aging. Here, we studied its relation to DNA methylation age (DNAm age) as introduced in (Horvath, 2013) in 180 elderly Danish twins. We found perceived age and DNAm age to be associated with chronological age (P=0.04 resp. P=2.2e-10) when correcting for gender, but di...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2017.09.004
更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:To understand the effect of calorie restriction on genome maintenance systems, the age-dependent accumulation of mutations in animals maintained on high and low calorie diets was examined using lacZ-transgenic mice. Mice were fed a diet of 95 kcal/w or 65 kcal/w from 2 to 17 months of age. The mutation frequencies in ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2011.01.004
更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The aim of the present study was to measure protein synthesis in regenerating liver and to evaluate the impact of malnutrition in young and old rats. Two groups of male Wistar rats were used: young rats (4 months old) and old rats (18 months old). The rats were allocated to malnutrition or ordinary food intake for 1 w...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(96)01779-4
更新日期：1996-10-04 00:00:00
abstract：:Apoptosis plays a central role in the homeostasis of the immune system. During aging, there is an altered regulation of pivotal molecules that are responsible for the regulation of this type of cell death, such as those of the Fas/FasL system. Understanding the regulation of these genes can help to clarify, at least i...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(03)00029-0
更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The potential gain in life expectancy which could result from the complete elimination of mortality from cancer in the U.S. would not exceed 3 years if one were to consider cancer independently of other causes of death. In this paper, we review evidence of trade-offs between cancer and aging as well as between cancer ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2008.03.006
更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In the present work, we investigated whether IGF-1 regulates the transcription of the genes encoding the L-type Ca2+ channel (DHPR) channel and RyR1 in young adult and senescent mice. To this end, a transgenic mouse model overexpressing IGF-1 exclusively in skeletal muscle (S1S2) was studied at different ages and the ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(00)00236-0
更新日期：2001-04-15 00:00:00
abstract：:The bone marrow of old adult mice ( approximately 2 years old) has reduced B lymphopoiesis; however, whether the B1 pathway in adult bone marrow is also compromised in senescence is not known. Herein, we show that phenotypic (IgM(-)Lin(-)CD93(+)[AA4.1(+)] CD19(+)B220(low/-)) B1 progenitors are retained in old bone mar...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2009.04.001
更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this paper, some of the key findings of the last decade will briefly be surveyed and, where possible, be related to two separate computer simulation models which have been designed to determine the validity of certain widely accepted dogmas and to define the limits and restrictions imposed by attrition of or ambigu...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(80)90103-7
更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A population of 291 healthy North American Black subjects of different ages was studied for immunoglobulin (Ig) allotypes and the prevalence of autoantibodies, to determine possible associations between Ig allotypes and age, autoantibodies and age, and Ig allotypes and autoantibodies. Indirect immunofluorescence was u...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(82)90002-1
更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Lipofuscin accumulation in cultured rat myocardial cells is considered an index of intra-lysosomal oxidative reactions and was registered by autofluorescence measurements. Lipofuscinogenesis in secondary lysosomes is thought to be a consequence of Fenton reactions, and is much enhanced by oxidative stress obtained by ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(94)01569-8
更新日期：1995-06-09 00:00:00
abstract：:Anucleate minicells produced by a mutated strain of Escherichia coli remain metabolically active for up to 48 h at 37 degrees C. Minicells of increasing age have been infected with the coliphage T7. Infection results in the onset of transcription and translation producing T7 encoded polypeptides. Quantitative and qual...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(84)90045-9
更新日期：1984-10-15 00:00:00
abstract：:Adult Wistar NIN (WNIN) rats (6 months old) of both sexes were orally fed Amalakirasayana at a dose of 4.5 g per kg body weight, five days in a week. The Amalakirasayana was prepared by Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal, Kerala, India, which is considered as gold standard. After 3, 9 and 15 months of such therapeutic regime...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2011.10.006
更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The present study was designed to assess whether treatment with the monoamine oxidase-B (MAO-B) inhibitor L-deprenyl, which has been documented to increase both mean and maximum survival in aged rats as well as sexual performance and cognitive function, has any effect on the age-related microanatomical changes occurri...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(94)90060-4
更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Keratinocytes and fibroblasts were obtained from upper arm biopsies of young (22-27 years) and old (60-82 years) adult donors. Keratinocytes were grown in serum-free medium containing variable quantities of either epidermal growth factor (EGF) or a bovine hypothalamic extract known to contain keratinocyte growth facto...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(86)90009-6
更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00
