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 encounter. We are perhaps too impressed with the enormous diversity of genetic modulations of human senescence and with our interpretations of the implications of the evolutionary biological theory of senescence, namely that senescent phenotypes per se are non-adaptive, non-determinative, subject to stochastic events as well as highly polygenic modulations, with resulting wide variability in mechanisms of senescence among and within species. Quite happily, however, there are wonderful optimists among us. They seem to be convinced that there are likely to be a rather small number of major gene effects for a few major mechanisms. They include most Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Caenorhabditis elegans geneticists, some Drosophila melanogaster geneticists, and some mouse geneticists. They also include caloric restriction enthusiasts. Let's call these colleagues 'simplificationists'. Journalists and friends generally find them to be delightful companions. Where does the truth lie? Perhaps the truth lies somewhere between these two extremes and is largely dependent upon the organisms and the range of environments being investigated.
journal_name
Mech Ageing Devjournal_title
Mechanisms of ageing and developmentauthors
Martin GMdoi
10.1016/s0047-6374(01)00335-9subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2002-01-01 00:00:00pages
65-73; discussion 75-9issue
2-3eissn
0047-6374issn
1872-6216pii
S0047637401003359journal_volume
123pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract：:The release of cytokines is of crucial importance in the regulation of the type and magnitude of the immune response in the elderly. A number of studies have shown different levels of cytokine production in the elderly. In the present study, a range of polymorphisms were chosen within the genes of cytokines (IL-2, IL-...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(02)00132-x
更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Selenium (Se) is an essential trace mineral mediating its biological function primarily through selenoproteins. Accumulated lines of evidence indicate important roles of selenoproteins in the maintenance of optimal brain functions via redox regulation. Decreased expression of several selenoproteins is associated with ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2010.02.006
更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The paper of Kitani cited in the title has raised an apparent contradiction regarding the validity of certain aspects of the membrane hypothesis of aging (MHA). He collected data showing that a number of detoxifying liver enzyme activities, although decline with age in male Fischer 344 rats, remain at an unchanged lev...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 评论,杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(01)00237-8
更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:A few reports suggest that pigmented granules found in molluscan neurons accumulate with age as do lipofuscin granules in vertebrate cells; however, no reports on molluscan neurons include detailed descriptions of granule accumulation or histochemical tests to identify the pigment as lipofuscin-like. In this study lig...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(78)90052-0
更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:There is an alteration of the immune response in aging that leads to the increased incidence of infections, cancers and autoimmune disorders. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether there exists changes in signal transduction under the IL-2 receptor stimulation and the role of plasma membrane cholester...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(01)00274-3
更新日期：2001-09-15 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：: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
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journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(83)90048-9
更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The objective of the this study was to determine the cytokine profile of aging mice and to establish whether changes in cytokine production account for the fact that aging mice develop a milder disease than the young in response to induced experimental systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Cytokine secretion was evaluat...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(97)01891-5
更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The intertwining between epilepsy, sleep disorders and beta amyloid pathology has been progressively highlighted, as early identification and stratification of patients at high risk of cognitive decline is the need of the hour. Modification of the sleep-wake activity, such as sleep impairment or excessive daytime slee...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2021.111434
更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00
abstract：:Cellular and organismal decline is, in part, believed to be a consequence of oxygen and nitrogen-based reactants which persistently damage macromolecules throughout a lifetime. The resulting accumulation of damaged molecules eventually seriously compromises essential functions of cells leading to their death. Excessiv...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(01)00384-0
更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00
abstract：:Analysis was made of the cellular basis of decline in the antibody immune response with advancing age. Employing the cell transfer system, it was found that spleen cells of aged mice have a limited capacity to react to SRBC when transferred into young irradiated recipients. Partial reconstitution was achieved when thy...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(78)90073-8
更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Nuclear envelopes of mammalian cells contain a nucleoside triphosphatase which is probably involved in mRNA transport through the nuclear membrane. The activity of the enzyme, studied in RNA-depleted nuclear ghosts, can be stimulated by poly(A) or by poly(A) (+)mRNA. Using nuclear ghost preparations from mature (8-10 ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(82)90100-2
更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Hypertension is a common age-related disease, along with vascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Vascular ageing increases during hypertension, but hypertension itself accelerates vascular ageing, thus creating a vicious circle. Vascular stiffening, endothelial dysfunction, impaired contractility and vasorelaxation a...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2020.111267
更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Quantitative methods for the study of aging in single organisms of the suctorian protozoan Tokophrya infusionum are described. New cell lines are initiated by metamorphosis of a ciliated embryo to form a sessile adult. The life history of adult cells consists of a sequence of age-related stages, culminating in cessati...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(84)90095-2
更新日期：1984-08-01 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：:Type I and II macrophage scavenger receptors are implicated in the pathologic deposition of cholesterol during the atherogenesis. There is a charged collagen structure of type I and II receptors identified as a ligand binding domain, which can recognize a wide range of negatively charged macromolecules including oxidi...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(99)00079-2
更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The present study aimed to reveal aging-related changes in the skeletal muscle of SD rats by comparing transcriptome analysis, integrated with muscle physiological parameters. Ten rats aged 25 months were set as the old group (OG) and ten rats aged 6 months were set as the young group (YG). After 6 weeks of feeding, t...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2018.01.001
更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Cellular senescence is a fundamental trait of many eukaryotic organisms. Senescent cells participate both in the developmental program and in normal ageing and age-related diseases. Senescence of proliferation-prone cells is a state of permanent cell cycle arrest accompanied by metabolic activity manifested by high se...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2017.08.004
更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The combined grafting of young bone marrow and newborn thymus performed in old mice was effective in restoring the impaired immune functions, but the same treatment performed in middle-aged adult mice had no effect on the life span of C3H/MTV female mice. Sequential multiple newborn thymus graftings starting at young ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(89)90067-5
更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Understanding mechanisms underlying longevity, and endeavor towards the specific goals of alleviating frailty in old age, require a comprehensive approach that considers the various theoretical and experimental approaches, as well as compiling the data on humans. This logistic has underlined the program of the confere...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 社论,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2004.08.013
更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The functional deterioration of an organism with age causes the major problem of maintaining the quality of life at old age. Degenerative changes in the organism may to some extent reflect alterations that can be observed in cells during in vitro replicative senescence. At the cellular level, the receptor-mediated end...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0047-6374(02)00029-5
更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00
abstract：:The antigen-specific antibody secretion in vitro after immunisation with the primary T-cell dependent antigen Helix pomatia Haemocyanin (HPH) was investigated in both young and elderly individuals, who all met the health admission criteria for immunogerontological studies as detailed in the SENIEUR protocol. In additi...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(92)90069-p
更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Loss of telomere length homeostasis has been linked to age-related disease especially cancer. In this review, we discuss two major causes of telomere dysfunction that potentially lead to tumorigenesis: replicative aging and environmental assaults. Aging has long been recognized as a source for telomere dysfunction thr...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2007.10.010
更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:A mutant of rad-8, originally isolated on the basis of its hypersensitivity to ultraviolet radiation, is also hypersensitive to oxygen and methyl viologen, a superoxide-anion generator. Oxygen also retarded development and reduced fecundity in a concentration-dependent fashion in rad-8 but not in wild type. In additio...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(93)90135-e
更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The decline in phytohemagglutinin (PHA) responsiveness of spleen cells from aged mice was studied in an effort to determine the nature of the depressed PHA reactivity. The reduced response of DNA synthesis (thymidine incorporation) to PHA stimulation could not be attributed to a decreased viability of spleen lymphocyt...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(75)90005-6
更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Relationships between nutrition and longevity are of growing interest. Here we analysed the influences of dietary restriction on the survival of Drosophila exposed to atmospheric oxygen or to chronic hypoxia. Dietary restriction was achieved by food dilution, by sucrose restriction or by yeast restriction. Sucrose and...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mad.2007.05.008
更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:On a DNA basis, there is higher concentration of polysomes in the brain of newborn than in the brain of adult mice, but there is no maturation-dependent decrease in tRNA content during postnatal development. The amino acid incorporating activity of cell-free systems with polysomes or mitochondria from newborn brain ex...
journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0047-6374(79)90040-x
更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00
