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, rats were sacrificed and various tissues including brain were removed. Isolated cell suspensions of neurons and astroglia were prepared from the cerebral cortex. DNA damage, as a prime indicator of the status of genomic stability was measured in terms of single (SSBs) and double strand breaks (DSBs) through (a). The "comet" assay and (b). The biochemical methods utilizing the unique properties of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I (pol I) and calf thymus terminal transferase. The results convincingly indicate that while in control animals, there was a distinct increase in DNA damage with age in neurons and astrocytes, rasayana fed animals showed significantly less DNA damage in brain cells demonstrating beneficial effects of Rasayana therapy towards maintenance of genomic stability. DNA-damage may be the proximal cause of aging and strategies to reduce the rate of aging could be based on this fact.
journal_name
Mech Ageing Devjournal_title
Mechanisms of ageing and developmentauthors
Swain U,Sindhu KK,Boda U,Pothani S,Giridharan NV,Raghunath M,Rao KSdoi
10.1016/j.mad.2011.10.006subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-04-01 00:00:00pages
112-7issue
4eissn
0047-6374issn
1872-6216pii
S0047-6374(11)00163-1journal_volume
133pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:Although myocardial actomyosin ATPase specific activity determined at Ca2+ levels of 1 x 10(-3) to 1 x 10(-2) M is consistently higher in two-month old male Fischer rats than in twelve-month old individuals, this difference can be eliminated if the enzyme is assayed at lower calcium concentrations. This suggests that ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(78)90040-4
更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Aflatoxin B1(AFB1)-glutathione(GSH) conjugation is the major pathway for the detoxification of aflatoxin metabolites. This reaction is catalysed by GSH S-transferase (GST) and play a major role in modulation of AFB1 adduct formation to nuclear DNA. Changes recorded in hepatic GST activity during development of rats ca...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(00)00105-6
更新日期：2000-05-18 00:00:00
abstract：:Age related changes in some aspects of glutamate metabolism were followed in the brain of a short lived species of tropical murrel, Channa punctatus. Both ammonia and glutamine contents of brain increased with advancing age of the murrel. The glutamate dehydrogenase activity of brain increased during maturation phase ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(93)90139-i
更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Epigenetic disruption has been implicated in many diseases of aging, and age-associated DNA methylation changes at specific genomic loci in humans are strongly correlated with chronological age. The aim of this study was to explore the specificity of selected age-associated differentially methylated positions (aDMPs) ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2016.02.001
更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Functional defects that accumulate in the T cell compartment are thought to be responsible for the pronounced immunodeficiency that develops during ageing, and reduced production of T cells by the thymus as it undergoes involution has been suggested to contribute to this phenomenon. Understanding the mechanisms respon...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(96)01818-0
更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Oxidative damage to macromolecules, including lipids, has been hypothesized as a mechanism of aging. One end product of lipid peroxidation, malondialdehyde (MDA), is often quantified as a measure of oxidative damage to lipids. We used a commercial colorimetric assay for MDA (Bioxytech LPO-586, Oxis International, Port...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(01)00329-3
更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In agreement with previous studies we show an age-related increase in serum levels of hyaluronic acid in healthy individuals. Levels in Down's syndrome persons were slightly higher, especially in those with hypothyroidism. This provides further evidence that the normal ageing process is accelerated in Down's syndrome....
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(98)00112-2
更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The touch smears of brain cells and hepatocytes of young and senescent mice were stained with antibody to cytidine nucleoside by an indirect immunofluorescence technique and subsequently combined with fluorescence cresyl violet staining of DNA. Nuclear binding of the antibody which reacts only with denatured or single...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(79)90041-1
更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The decreased immune response associated with aging may, in part, reflect intrinsic age-related biochemical alterations in lymphocytes from older animals. We measured levels of lymphocyte adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and continuous [3H]thymidine incorporation in phytohemagglutinin-stimulated lymphocytes from young and...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(83)90098-2
更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Whether lymphoid cells or their environment are responsible for the decreased tolerogen sensitivity of aged mice was examined using an adoptive transfer system. Bone marrow cells from old (24 months), middle aged (12 months) and young adult mice (2 months) were equally sensitive to tolerance induction with deaggregate...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(85)90057-0
更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This review addresses a novel facet of human T cell biology that constitutes a fundamental problem for long-term maintenance of immunological memory against viruses. The finite proliferative capacity of human T lymphocytes is sufficiently great to accommodate the waves of clonal expansion associated with primary and e...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(00)00207-4
更新日期：2000-12-20 00:00:00
abstract：:Activity of (Na+,K+)ATP-ase measured by means of influx of 86Rb was compared in lymphocytes from young, middle-age and old people. It was found that the (sensitive to ouabain) activity of (Na+,K+)ATPase was significantly diminished in the lymphocytes from aged subjects. ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(85)90105-8
更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Accumulation of oxidative DNA damage in the human brain has been implicated in etiologies of post-traumatic and age-associated declines in neuronal function. In neurons, because of high metabolic rates and prolonged life span, exposure to free radicals is intense and risk for accumulation of damaged DNA is amplified. ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2008.02.001
更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We have isolated a new type of Paramecium tetraurelia mutant, named rie-2, that has a long immaturity period until autogamy. We previously isolated such an autogamy mutant, designated rie-1. These two mutants had some additional common features such as dependence of the occurrence of autogamy on the temperature, invol...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2005.01.010
更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This paper presents evidence derived from the selective use of codons in ca. 40 eukaryotic genes (or messages derived from them) that codon usage is one of the most conserved features of messages for specific cell products. The theory has been developed by several investigations that the kinds of products of many if n...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(82)90034-3
更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The healing of normal incisional wounds and ischemic flap wounds was investigated in young (10 weeks) and old (102-104 weeks) rats, together with the effect of treatment with hyperbaric oxygen on day 0-3 of healing. After 10 days of healing all biomechanical strength parameters of normal wounds were decreased by 30-40...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(96)01782-4
更新日期：1996-10-25 00:00:00
abstract：:delta-Aminolevulinic acid synthase and heme oxygenase are closely functionally connected with the hepatic microsomal mixed function oxydase system. There is a wide range of changes in microsomal heme oxygenase activity, cytochrome P-450 level and mitochondrial delta-aminolevulinic acid synthase activity in rat livers ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(94)90100-7
更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Aqueous solutions of zirconium oxychloride were added to human peripheral blood lymphocyte culture. Cultures were set up from healthy donors of both sexes belonging to age groups of 0-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50 and 51-60 years. Airdried Giemsa schedule was followed for preparation of chromosomal aberrations and mi...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(92)90110-y
更新日期：1992-03-01 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：:Steroid-receptor complexes (SRCs) (glucocorticoids, estrogens and progestins) are isolated from rat liver and purified 1500-2000-fold. Both the initial cytosol complexes and those purified 2000-fold were characterized by gel filtration on Sephadex G-100 and DEAE-cellulose chromatography. The purified rat liver SRCs we...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(86)90001-1
更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Expression of dystrophin and the dystrophin-related protein utrophin has been studied in the human fetal brain both in vivo and in vitro. Results showed that both these proteins were developmentally regulated, even if their expression followed a different pattern. Utrophin was found since very early stages of developm...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(01)00360-8
更新日期：2002-03-15 00:00:00
abstract：:Antioxidants and telomere length are potential biomarkers for individuals' exposure and ability to cope with environmental stressors. However, intraspecific variations in antioxidant alterations due to natural, life cycle related stress, have been rarely estimated. We investigated those changes in wild-derived house m...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2017.10.002
更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Hematopoietic stem cell performance and identity, crucial for homeostasis of the blood-forming system, is governed by extrinsic factors found in the bone marrow microenvironment. Communication within hematopoietic stem cell niches occurs via soluble factors or cell-to-cell contacts between niche and blood-forming cell...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2020.111329
更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Chondrocytes derived from chick embryos can be successfully implanted in defects of adult chick articular cartilage surfaces. Such implants thrive in their implantation site and create a new articular surface. The chondrocytes mature and hypertrophy in the orthotopic site without invoking an immune response. Eventuall...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(89)90060-2
更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Recent studies show that cellular and mitochondrial iron increases with age. Iron overload, especially in mitochondria, increases the availability of redox-active iron, which may be a causal factor in the extensive age-related biomolecular oxidative damage observed in aged organisms. Such damage is thought to play a m...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2010.04.007
更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The effect of the oral administration of 0.150 mg/m2 clonidine on the plasma level of human growth hormone (hGH) was studied in 53 adults (25 males and 28 females) aged from 28 to 68 years, of which 15 were healthy volunteers and 38 were hypertensive. Both the normal and hypertensive subjects of both sexes showed an a...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(84)90086-1
更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Aging is a complex physiological process by which the functions of many organ systems deteriorate. Growing evidence shows that age-related changes and damage are causally related to oxidative stress and inflammatory responses from reactive species. The aim of this study was to identify differentially expressed genes i...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2005.03.009
更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:During senescence, autofluorescent lysosomal storage bodies known as lipofusin or age pigment accumulate in many post-mitotic types of cells. Among these cell types is the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) of the mammalian eye. The mechanisms of lipofuscin formation and accumulation have been studied more extensively i...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2004.11.004
更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Only recently have the studies of yeast ageing started to focus on the S288c-derived strains used extensively in genomics and on the longest lifespans. Chronological longevity (stationary (G(0)) survival) of such strains is greater when cells are pre-grown on a respiratory carbon source, as compared to when they are p...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2006.05.004
更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The role of glucocorticosteroid and thyroid hormone and of glucagon and insulin in the pre- and postnatal developmental formation of carbamoyl-phosphate synthase, ornithine transcarbamoylase, arginase, glutamate dehydrogenase, tyrosine aminotransferase, glucose-6-phosphatase, hexokinase and glucokinase activities in r...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(81)90010-5
更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00
