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 in part, the age-related changes that occur in immune cells. We have developed an original real time PCR assay for quantification of mRNA for Fas and FasL, and have studied a group of young donors, middle aged subjects and centenarians. We have found that the production of Fas mRNA is greatly increased in resting lymphocytes from centenarians; such an increase follows an age-related trend. On the contrary, the production of mRNA for the molecule, which is the natural ligand of Fas, i.e. FasL, is consistently reduced. Our preliminary results suggest that during aging a subtle balance in the production of molecules that cause apoptosis could exist, and that, in order to avoid an excessive death of immune cells, a still unknown mechanism could compensate the increase of Fas with the reduction of FasL.
journal_name
Mech Ageing Devjournal_title
Mechanisms of ageing and developmentauthors
Pinti M,Troiano L,Nasi M,Monterastelli E,Moretti L,Bellodi C,Mazzacani A,Mussi C,Salvioli G,Cossarizza Adoi
10.1016/s0047-6374(03)00029-0subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2003-04-01 00:00:00pages
511-6issue
4eissn
0047-6374issn
1872-6216pii
S0047637403000290journal_volume
124pub_type
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journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(98)00043-8
更新日期：1998-06-15 00:00:00
abstract：:The current increase in life expectancy observed in industrialized societies underscores the need to achieve a better understanding of the aging process that could help the development of effective strategies to achieve healthy aging. This will require not only identifying genes involved in the aging process, but also...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2006.12.003
更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Putrescine, spermidine, spermine and two unknowns designated as A and B were detected in first seedling leaves of barley (Hordeum vulgare L. var. Wolfe). The levels of these polyamines in first seedling leaves from 4-day-old barley plants grown in darkness or in light were comparable and did not change significantly a...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(87)90031-5
更新日期：1987-09-14 00:00:00
abstract：:The progression of many neurodegenerative diseases is assumed to be caused by misfolding of specific characteristic diseases related proteins, resulting in aggregation and fibril formation of these proteins. Protein misfolding associated age related diseases, although different in disease manifestations, share strikin...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2016.03.001
更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This is the first in a series of articles in which we intend to critically review some of the currently used models in gerontology research and evaluate their contribution to advancing our understanding of the phenomenon of senescence. The major theories of aging are considered. We discuss what makes a model useful in...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(00)00141-x
更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00
abstract：:Atypical bodies (ABs), related to aging, are described in the central nervous system of normal aged hamsters. Our study used ultrastructural microscopy and quantitative stereology analysis to study these structures in the hypothalamus and brain stem of 3, 6, 12, 18, 24 and 30 month-old hamsters. We found that these co...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(96)01755-1
更新日期：1996-09-09 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:It seems to be clear that hepatic age-related HMG-CoA reductase total activation is connected to a rise of reactive oxygen species (ROS). However, the mechanism by which ROS achieve this effect is unknown. Thus, in this work, we have performed a study of HMG-CoAR by analyzing the enzymes involved in its shor...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2007.10.001
更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The ascidian Ciona intestinalis has a short life span and powerful regeneration capacities. The regeneration of the oral siphon (OS) involves wound healing, blastema formation, cell proliferation, and replacement of 8 oral pigment organs (OPO), the latter via differentiation and migration of stem/precursor cells from ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2012.08.003
更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Human diploid fibroblasts, TIG-1, were serially subcultivated at low inoculation densities thus maintaining the cultures in log phase throughout their in vitro lifespan. Their lifespan was shortened in calendar time without decreasing the cumulative number of population doublings when compared with the lifespan of cel...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(80)90034-2
更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In order to determine whether the function of alveolar macrophages (AM) is modulated by aging, we measured the TNF-alpha production, phagocytic function, and surface antigen expression of AM from young and old mice. When AM were primed by IFN-gamma (500 units/ml) and triggered by LPS (100 micrograms/ml), TNF-alpha pro...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(93)90024-l
更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In recent years, there was an increasing interest on candidate genes may play an important role in the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Several genome wide screens have undertaken so far or expanded recently, and suggested a number of genomic areas that may contain novel susceptibility genes for AD, in particu...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2005.08.004
更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptor (PBR) is a protein predominantly located in the mitochondrial outer membrane that plays an important role in the regulation of cell survival and proliferation. Previous studies have shown an enhanced expression of PBR in the regenerating sciatic nerve, suggesting that this p...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2005.06.001
更新日期：2005-11-01 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：: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：:Telomeres are supposed to play a role in cellular aging and might contribute to the genetic background of human aging and longevity. During the past few years telomere length has been measured in various human tissues. However, very little is known about the individual telomere loss in different tissues from the same ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(00)00173-1
更新日期：2000-11-15 00:00:00
abstract：:In an interspecies comparison of seven primate species, the expression of the erbB proto oncogene was found to be higher in fibroblasts derived from three relatively long-lived species, the human, gorilla, and chimpanzee than in cells from the orangutan, pygmy chimpanzee, squirrel monkey, or red-bellied tamarin. No si...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(87)90007-8
更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Both vascular relaxation and cAMP accumulation mediated by beta adrenergic agonists declines with increasing age. We have developed a method to measure the biologically relevant cAMP bound to the regulatory subunits of cAMP-dependent protein kinase in rat aorta. In homogenates of rat aorta, binding of [3H]cAMP was sat...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(90)90064-m
更新日期：1990-04-09 00:00:00
abstract：:Several alternative mortality models fit Swedish old-age mortality data equally well. The models build on two different concepts of the heterogeneity of individuals in a population. The first concept concerns fixed, genetic differences among individuals in their risk of death. The second concept involves acquired susc...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(94)90094-9
更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Aging is characterized by a progressive loss of several physiological functions that can cause various age-related disorders. Several factors have been identified as causes of aging to elucidate the decline in functions. Various aspects of physiological deterioration are controlled by the hypothalamus, a critical brai...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2018.04.008
更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Age-dependent renal damage is influenced by genetic background and the Fisher344xBrown Norway (F344xBN) rat is resistant to glomerular injury. In vulnerable strains, a fall in renal nitric oxide synthase (NOS) contributes to age-dependent renal damage. Here, we investigated renal NOS in young (3 months) and old (30 mo...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2010.10.004
更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The present report analyzes the suppressor cell system of aged rats in an experimental model of autoimmunity to rat male accessory glands (RAG). A state of specific suppression to RAG was induced when young rats are pretreated with peritoneal cells (PC) obtained from syngeneic young rats i.p. injected 2 h previously w...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(94)90005-1
更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A highly sensitive nucleic acid hybridization assay was used to compare the extent of nonrepetitive DNA transcription in rat liver between the ages of two and ten months. The basic approach consisted on initially purifying the DNA expressed in liver at these ages and then using it in reactions with homologous and hete...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(81)90045-2
更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The strychnine-insensitive binding of [3H]glycine was characterized in purified cerebral cortical membranes from mice aged from 7 days to 22 months. The binding was saturable, exhibiting only one component during the whole life-span studied. The binding constant KD did not change during development and ageing, whereas...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(93)90131-a
更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Our previous results indicated that glutathione (GSH) and/or cysteine (Cys) deficiency occurs in many aging tissues and also after acetaminophen (APAP) administration. The aim of this study was to investigate whether GSH monoethyl ester (GSH-OEt) can correct these deficiencies. Mice of different ages (3-31 months) thr...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(00)00214-1
更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Filopodia in log and stationary phase populations of human fetal lung fibroblasts (WI-38) at low and high population doubling levels (PDLs) and of SV40 transformed WI-38 cells (VA13A), were observed and counted under different conditions of in vitro growth by scanning electron microscopy. Cells from old non-vigorously...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(86)90048-5
更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Ascorbic acid content decreased with age in livers of male rats but not in those of female rats. The influence of aging on the regeneration of ascorbic acid from dehydroascorbic acid was investigated as a possible cause of declining ascorbate concentrations. The results demonstrate that hepatic NADPH-dehydroascorbic a...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(96)01784-8
更新日期：1996-11-13 00:00:00
abstract：:The identification of predictive markers of life span would help to unravel the underlying mechanisms influencing ageing and longevity. For this aim, 30 variables including immune functions, inflammatory-oxidative stress state and behavioural characteristics were investigated in ICR-CD1 female mice at the adult age (N...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2019.111125
更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:An increase in natural (innate) immunity with age (through 65 weeks) of NBR rats to a syngeneic methylcholanthrene-induced fibrosarcoma (MCA) is described. This increase is characterized by the appearance of spontaneous tumor regressor animals and an increase in the incidence of tumor non-takes by rats 45 weeks of age...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(81)90129-9
更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A pronounced suppression of the humoral, hemolytic, primary immune response in old (22 months) mice was demonstrated as compared with this response in young (10 weeks) mice. The suppression is associated with a lower thymus weight:body weight ratio. In contrast, the ratios spleen weight:body weight and liver weight:bo...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(78)90065-9
更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The effects of interleukin-1 (IL-1), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on the productions of nitric oxide (NO) and cGMP by cultured articular chondrocyte (AC) monolayers from 1-, 8- and 18-month old male Wistar rats were studied. It was found that basal NO and cGMP productions decre...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(97)00150-4
更新日期：1998-03-16 00:00:00
