Abstract：
:In adult rats 3, 6 and 9 months post-orchidectomy performed at the age of 30 days the thymus weight, thymocyte yield and relative proportions of thymocyte subsets (delineated by expression of CD4/CD8 molecules and TCRalphabeta) were analyzed in order to elucidate a putative role of male gonadal hormones in the shaping of thymus size and intrathymic T cell maturation. In 4-month-old control rats the thymus size and cellularity returned to the corresponding levels in 1-month-old rats. These levels were sustained during the following 6 months. In spite of that, the distribution of the main thymocyte subsets in these rats was subjected to significant changes, probably due to an age-associated diminishing thymus ability to provide efficient T cell differentiation. The results added further weight to a potential feedback regulatory role of CD4+8- cells in thymopoiesis. Furthermore, they revealed that the orchidectomy-induced (i) enlargement of the thymus size and enrichment of the thymic lymphoid cell content are of a limited duration; and (ii) alterations in the relative proportion of thymocytes become quantitatively more pronounced with duration of the gonadal deprivation. Thus, the study also indicates that the age-associated changes in gonadal hormones may be, at least partly, responsible for the age-related reshaping of the T cell maturation sequence, and hence for remodeling T cell dependent immune functions.
journal_name
Mech Ageing Devjournal_title
Mechanisms of ageing and developmentauthors
Leposavic G,Pejcić-Karapetrović B,Kosec Ddoi
10.1016/s0047-6374(01)00399-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2002-02-01 00:00:00pages
401-11issue
4eissn
0047-6374issn
1872-6216pii
S0047637401003992journal_volume
123pub_type
杂志文章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 mTOR deregulation has a role in chronic kidney disease including diabetic nephropathy. SIRT1 is an important participant in renal cytoprotective responses to aging and stress. However, whether both mTOR and SIRT1 are involved in high glucose-inducing mesangial cells (MCs) senescence still remains to be explored. H...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2012.04.005
更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Levels of the beta-subunit of nerve growth factor (beta-NGF) were determined in various tissues from senescence-accelerated mice (SAM-P/8) and compared with those from senescence-resistant control mice (SAM-R/1) at 4 months of age. (1) In SAM-P/8, the testis was 30% larger in terms of wet weight than that from SAM-R/1...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(91)90082-b
更新日期：1991-06-14 00:00:00
abstract：:The localization of the beta/A4 amyloid precursor protein (APP) was studied in the human lumbar paravertebral sympathetic ganglia of subjects of different ages, free of neurologic disease, using combined immunohistochemistry and image analysis techniques (optic microdensitometry). To ascertain which cells displayed AP...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(94)91588-1
更新日期：1994-10-20 00:00:00
abstract：:Cell-free protein synthesis by mouse liver ribosomes was examined as a function of the age of individual ribosome donors. In two strains of mouse, one long-lived and one short-lived, both the fraction of polyribosomes and the rate of in vitro ribosomal protein synthesis remained essentially constant throughout the lif...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(81)90049-x
更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:It strikes me that among our relatively small community of gerontologists concerned with genetic approaches to our science, there is somewhat of a dichotomization. On the one hand, there are those of us, like myself, who tend to be dour 'complificationists'. Journalists talk to us, but are usually disappointed by the ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(01)00335-9
更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:The B cell responsiveness mediated by T cells has been evaluated in 50 aged donors by using a Pokeweed mitogen (PWM)-driven differentiation system. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from aged donors exhibited a lower plaque-forming cell (PFC) generation in comparison with young donors. Similar results were obt...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(87)90056-x
更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00
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：:Pituitary adenomas were the most common grossly visible naturally occurring neoplasms found in over 27% of rats surviving beyond 17 months of age. Twenty-three pituitary adenomas, fixed in buffered neutral formalin and embedded in paraffin, were tested for the presence of prolactin (PRL), growth hormone (GH) and thyro...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(82)90065-3
更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this paper, we approach the problem of attempting to understand senescence by understanding the complexity and hierarchical structure of mammalian organisms. To do this, we make use of some concepts from abstract relational biology; in particular, graph theory. We subsequently utilize these concepts to develop the ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(84)90056-3
更新日期：1984-10-31 00:00:00
abstract：:Caloric restriction (CR) is the most effective intervention to improve health span and extend lifespan in preclinical models. This anti-aging effect of CR is related to attenuation of oxidative damage in various tissues, with divergent results in the brain. We addressed how brain oxidoreductive balance would be modula...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2019.01.002
更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A comparison is made between how bacteria and men use their DNA to accomplish any major biological function. To make this comparison, a modified cybernetic analysis was used. This new type of cybernetic analysis makes a distinction between controlled and regulated systems and may permit an extension of cybernetics int...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(77)90015-x
更新日期：1977-03-01 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：:To explore whether catecholaminergic lesions produced chemically in the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) would alter the baroreflex impairment that normally occurs with age, we compared baroreflex responses in 3- and 14-month-old rats given bilateral microinjections of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) or its vehicle into th...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(92)90097-w
更新日期：1992-06-01 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：:Specific T-cell cytotoxic responses to allogeneic and hapten-modified syngeneic cells decrease with age. In order to determine the causes of these reduced T-cell cytotoxic responses, spleen cells from individual young and senescent C57BL/6J female mice were mixed in various proportions in culture with either X-irradia...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(84)90135-0
更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:While deviations from the optimal phenotype are deleterious, increased variation can prevent population extinction under severe stresses. Cell division asymmetry is an important source of microbial phenotypic heterogeneity. A consecutive set of asymmetric divisions can cause the gradual accumulation of deleterious fac...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2018.09.001
更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The circulating antibody titers to bovine serum albumin (BSA) were determined for two groups of aged Fischer 344 rats obtained form the National Institute on Aging. One group received a single immunization of BSA in complete Freund's adjuvant, and the second group was immunized three times at two-week intervals with t...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(81)90032-4
更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:T cells in vivo have been shown to accumulate DNA damage with age. To investigate the effects of DNA damage on T cell biology we have utilised an in vitro human CD4+ T cell clone model. Levels and types of DNA damage were determined in 11 independent T cell clones as a function of their in vitro lifespan. Increased le...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(01)00254-8
更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:DNA methylation (DNAm) is a fundamental biochemical modification which occurs over the lifespan of an individual and it is a significant component in the aging process. Methylation level of CpG sites plays an important role in finding the age of a person. Different approaches were used to extract age-related CpG (AR-C...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2017.08.012
更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Changes in the T cell pool caused by CMV infection have been proposed to contribute to immunosenescence, but it has been postulated that CMV can also have some beneficial effects in young individuals improving the immune response to other pathogens. T cells expressing CD56 (NKT-like cells) are cytotoxic effector cells...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2015.12.003
更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The present study investigated whether age-related changes in the production of Th1 and Th2 cytokines by human T cells might be linked to altered frequencies of naive (CD45RA+) and memory (CD45RO+) T cell subsets. T cells from healthy elderly humans (n = 32) stimulated with anti-CD3epsilon monoclonal antibody OKT3 plu...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(99)00030-5
更新日期：1999-08-30 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：:The effect of age on the capacity of tyramine to promote the release of norepinephrine (NE) at the cardiac adrenergic neuroeffector junction was investigated in isolated hearts of rats, 6, 12 and 24 months of age. Hearts were perfused by the method of Langendorff and tyramine was administered in increasing doses as a ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(86)90093-x
更新日期：1986-11-14 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：: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：:To investigate age-related changes in gene expression in WI-38 cells, we isolated RNA from young and senescent, quiescent cultures and made subtracted cDNA libraries. Density-arrested cells were incubated in serum-free MCDB-104 for 3 days. RNA was then isolated and subtracted cDNA libraries were made in the phagemid v...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(92)90039-g
更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Motor neurons and ventral root motor fibres innervating extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle in rats of 0.5-3.5 months of age were studied by HRP-retrograde labelling and in vivo muscle tension recording, respectively. EDL nucleus size increased with age but motor neurons number and size did not change. Twitch and t...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(96)01839-8
更新日期：1996-12-20 00:00:00
abstract：:Age-specific mortality rates from stomach cancer (SC) in Japan from 1950 through 1993 were subjected to longitudinal Gompertzian analysis. Age-specific SC mortality rate distributions between ages 45 and 75 years were highly Gompertzian for each- and every year for both men and women. Between 1950 and 1993, age-adjust...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(95)01669-4
更新日期：1995-11-24 00:00:00
