{"title":"Role of hematopoietic aging in cognitive decline","authors":"Helen S. Goodridge","doi":"10.1016/j.tma.2020.07.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tma.2020.07.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We recently demonstrated that transplantation of young bone marrow cells rescued hippocampal learning and memory in old recipient mice. Our study also implicated CCL11/eotaxin-1 in microglial reactivity during aging, which likely underlies neurotoxicity and synapse loss. CCL11 was reduced in the circulation of old recipients of young bone marrow, which likely contributed to their improved cognitive function. Thus, targeting CCL11 or its receptor may be an effective strategy for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36555,"journal":{"name":"Translational Medicine of Aging","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 99-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tma.2020.07.003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55175775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mitochondrial hyperactivity as a potential therapeutic target in Parkinson’s disease","authors":"Danielle E. Mor, Coleen T. Murphy","doi":"10.1016/j.tma.2020.07.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tma.2020.07.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mitochondrial dysfunction is thought to contribute to neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease (PD), yet the cellular events that lead to mitochondrial disruption remain unclear. Post-mortem studies of PD patient brains and the use of complex I inhibitors to model the disease previously suggested a reduction in mitochondrial activity as a causative factor in PD, but this may represent an endpoint in the disease process. In our recent studies, we identified a novel link between branched-chain amino acid metabolism and PD, and uncovered mitochondrial hyperactivity as a potential alternative mechanism of PD pathogenesis. Increased mitochondrial activity may occur in a subset of PD patients, or may be a more common early event that precedes the ultimate loss of mitochondrial function. Therefore, it may be that any imbalance in mitochondrial activity, either increased or decreased, could cause a loss of mitochondrial homeostasis that leads to disease. An effective therapeutic strategy may be to target specific imbalances in activity at selective stages of PD or in specific patients, with any efforts to reduce mitochondrial activity constituting a surprising new avenue for PD treatment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36555,"journal":{"name":"Translational Medicine of Aging","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 117-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tma.2020.07.007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38697666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remote but not isolated","authors":"William B. Mair","doi":"10.1016/j.tma.2020.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tma.2020.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>I helped organized an online seminar series for 1500 people with no planning. Here are some thoughts on how it went, what we learned, and how it might shape in person meetings in the future.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36555,"journal":{"name":"Translational Medicine of Aging","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 86-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tma.2020.06.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38295737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The heat shock transcription factor HSF-1 protects Caenorhabditis elegans from peroxide stress","authors":"Francesco A. Servello, Javier Apfeld","doi":"10.1016/j.tma.2020.07.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tma.2020.07.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cells induce conserved defense mechanisms that protect them from oxidative stress. How these defenses are regulated in multicellular organisms is incompletely understood. Here, we show that the heat shock transcription factor HSF-1 protects the nematode <em>Caenorhabditis elegans</em> from the oxidative stress caused by environmental peroxide. In response to a heat shock or a mild temperature increase, HSF-1 protects the nematodes from subsequent peroxide stress in a manner that depends on HSF-1’s transactivation domain. At constant temperature, HSF-1 protects the nematodes from peroxide stress independently of its transactivation domain, likely by inducing the expression of <em>asp-4/cathepsin</em> and <em>dapk-1/dapk</em>. Thus, two distinct HSF-1-dependent processes protect <em>C. elegans</em> from peroxide stress.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36555,"journal":{"name":"Translational Medicine of Aging","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 88-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tma.2020.07.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91769654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eric M. Small , Daniel P. Felker , Olivia C. Heath , Ryla J. Cantergiani , Christine E. Robbins , Mary Ann Osley , Mark A. McCormick
{"title":"SPOCK, an R based package for high-throughput analysis of growth rate, survival, and chronological lifespan in yeast","authors":"Eric M. Small , Daniel P. Felker , Olivia C. Heath , Ryla J. Cantergiani , Christine E. Robbins , Mary Ann Osley , Mark A. McCormick","doi":"10.1016/j.tma.2020.08.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tma.2020.08.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Plate-reader based methods for high-throughput measurement of growth rate, cellular survival, and chronological lifespan are a compelling addition to the already powerful toolbox of budding yeast <em>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</em> genetics. These methods have overcome many of the limits of traditional yeast biology techniques, but also present a new bottleneck at the point of data-analysis. Herein, we describe SPOCK (Survival Percentage and Outgrowth Collection Kit), an R-based package for the analysis of data created by high-throughput plate reader based methods. This package allows for the determination of chronological lifespan, cellular growth rate, and survival in an efficient, robust, and reproducible fashion.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36555,"journal":{"name":"Translational Medicine of Aging","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 141-148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tma.2020.08.003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25334527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Borja-Gonzalez , Jose C. Casas-Martinez , Brian McDonagh , Katarzyna Goljanek-Whysall
{"title":"Aging Science Talks: The role of miR-181a in age-related loss of muscle mass and function","authors":"Maria Borja-Gonzalez , Jose C. Casas-Martinez , Brian McDonagh , Katarzyna Goljanek-Whysall","doi":"10.1016/j.tma.2020.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tma.2020.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36555,"journal":{"name":"Translational Medicine of Aging","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 81-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tma.2020.07.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38295738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ELOVL2: Not just a biomarker of aging","authors":"Daniel L. Chao , Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk","doi":"10.1016/j.tma.2020.06.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tma.2020.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>DNA methylation of the ELOVL2 (Elongation Of Very Long Chain Fatty Acids-Like 2) promoter is one of the most robust molecular biomarkers for chronological age, but whether ELOVL2 plays a functional role in aging has not been explored. ELOVL2 encodes a transmembrane protein involved in the synthesis of very long polyunsaturated fatty acids (VLC-PUFAs). These fatty acids play important roles in retinal biology and photoreceptor renewal, key processes implicated in age-related eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Here, we summarize our work deciphering the role of ELOVL2 in the eye emphasizing the potential functional role of age-related DNA methylation in the pathophysiology of AMD.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36555,"journal":{"name":"Translational Medicine of Aging","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 78-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tma.2020.06.004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38476505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emelyne Teo , Soon Yew John Lim , Sheng Fong , Anis Larbi , Graham D. Wright , Nicholas Tolwinski , Jan Gruber
{"title":"A high throughput drug screening paradigm using transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans model of Alzheimer’s disease","authors":"Emelyne Teo , Soon Yew John Lim , Sheng Fong , Anis Larbi , Graham D. Wright , Nicholas Tolwinski , Jan Gruber","doi":"10.1016/j.tma.2019.12.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tma.2019.12.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Alzheimer’s disease (AD), characterized by memory loss and cognitive decline, is one of the diseases with the highest attrition rate in drug development. As with other neurodegenerative diseases, AD manifests on several scales (molecular, cellular and organismal), resulting in an organismal phenotype that is difficult to replicate and exploit for screening <em>in vitro</em>. Development of high-throughput drug screening platforms using invertebrate organisms may therefore facilitate drug discovery in AD, at least for compounds that target mechanisms that can be modelled in invertebrates, such as metabolic defects and mitochondrial toxicity. Here we present a potentially high-throughput screening platform against AD in <em>Caenorhabditis elegans</em> (<em>C. elegans</em>). The system is based on our transgenic AD model strain (GRU102) that expresses a pathogenic human amyloid-beta peptide (Aβ1-42) specifically in neurons and we use this approach to identify Metformin, Lithium and Curcumin as potential “hits”. We find that the ability to rescue the swim-exhaustion phenotype correlates well with lifespan and healthspan improvements in GRU102. Importantly, several other drugs, such as Thioflavin T that have been reported previously to extend lifespan, modify aspects of ageing or for which protective effects in AD model might be suspected did not rescue the swim performance nor lifespan of GRU102. This illustrates the predictive value of the screening assay and confirms that not all compounds targeting ageing are capable of compensating for the toxic effects of Aβ1-42 in GRU102. Together, these findings demonstrate the utility of our screen towards the Aβ-induced defects in GRU102.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36555,"journal":{"name":"Translational Medicine of Aging","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 11-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tma.2019.12.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55175703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel P Felker, Christine E Robbins, Mark A McCormick
{"title":"<i>Automation of C. elegans</i> lifespan measurement.","authors":"Daniel P Felker, Christine E Robbins, Mark A McCormick","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Aging is a fundamental biological process that is still not fully understood. As many of the most significant human diseases have aging as their greatest risk factor, a better understanding of aging potentially has enormous practical implications in treating these diseases. The nematode <i>C. elegans</i> is an exceptionally useful genetic model organism that had been used with great success to shed light on many genes and pathways that are involved in aging. Many of these pathways and mechanisms have been shown to be conserved through mammals. The standard methods for assaying survival in <i>C. elegans</i> to measure changes in lifespan are tedious and time consuming. This limits the throughput and productivity of <i>C. elegans</i> aging researchers. In recent years, many inroads have been made into automating various facets of the collection and analysis of <i>C. elegans</i> lifespan experimental data. The advances described in this review all work to ameliorate some of the hurdles that come with manual worm lifespan scoring, by automating or eliminating some of the most time consuming aspects of the assay. By greatly increasing the throughput of lifespan assays, these methods will enable types of experiments (e.g., drug library screens) whose scale is currently impractical. These methods have already proved exceptionally useful, and some of them are likely to be the predecessors of even more refined methods that could lead to breakthroughs in the ability to study lifespan in <i>C. elegans</i>. This could in turn potentially revolutionize our understanding of the basic biology of aging, and one day lead to treatments that could offset or delay age-related diseases in humans.</p>","PeriodicalId":36555,"journal":{"name":"Translational Medicine of Aging","volume":"4 ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7597742/pdf/nihms-1619620.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38556341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nanocarriers targeting senescent cells","authors":"Daniel Muñoz-Espín","doi":"10.1016/j.tma.2019.01.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tma.2019.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ageing and multiple chronic diseases in humans associate with an aberrant accumulation of senescent cells in a diversity of tissues, which contributes to organ dysfunction and drives their pathological manifestations. It emerges that elimination of senescent cells ameliorates and even reverts the progression of age-related disorders, thereby extending healthspan and lifespan in preclinical mouse models. Development of delivery carriers specifically targeting senescent cells offers innovative therapeutic and diagnostic applications in translational medicine.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36555,"journal":{"name":"Translational Medicine of Aging","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tma.2019.01.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55175545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}