scholarly journals Inflamm-ageing and lifelong antigenic load as major determinants of ageing rate and longevity

FEBS Letters ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 579 (10) ◽  
pp. 2035-2039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo De Martinis ◽  
Claudio Franceschi ◽  
Daniela Monti ◽  
Lia Ginaldi
Keyword(s):  
Ageing Rate ◽  
Antigenic Load

Authentication of the Ancient Easel / Paintings Through Materials Identification from the Polychrome Layers II. Analysis by Means of the FT-IR Spectrophotometry

2008 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Crina Anca Sandu ◽  
Constantin Luca ◽  
Ion Sandu ◽  
Viorica Vasilache ◽  
Mikiko Hayashi
Keyword(s):  
Degradation Rate ◽  
Animal Glue ◽  
Painting Materials ◽  
Ageing Rate ◽  
Ir Spectrophotometry ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Ft Ir

This is the second paper belonging to a study concerning the authentication of ancient easel-paintings, on canvas and wood support, from private and public collections, by using the FT-IR spectrophotometry technique for the analysis of the painting materials. Different pigments, egg binders, caseins and animal glue, often found in ancient easel-paintings on wood or canvas, have been used as standards for establishing the ageing rate of the paintings by correlation with the dates presented in the first note. The determination of the degradation rate of the painting materials is an important archaeometric characteristic used in authentication.

TEST-BATTERY TO MEASURE AGEING-RATE IN MAN

The Lancet ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 294 (7635) ◽  
pp. 1411-1415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Comfort
Keyword(s):  
Test Battery ◽  
Ageing Rate

scholarly journals Telomere length in house sparrows increases in early-life and can be paternally inherited

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Bennett ◽  
Antje Girndt ◽  
Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar ◽  
Terry Burke ◽  
Mirre J. P. Simons ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Telomere Length ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Passer Domesticus ◽  
Age Effects ◽  
Parental Age ◽  
House Sparrows ◽  
Older Parents ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Ageing Rate ◽  
Insight Into

Offspring of older parents in many species display decreased longevity, a faster ageing rate and lower fecundity than offspring born to younger parents. Biomarkers, such as telomeres, that tend to shorten as individual age, may provide insight into the mechanisms of parental age effects. Parental age could determine telomere length either through inheritance of shortened telomeres or through indirect effects, such as variation in parental care with parent ages, which in turn might lead to variation in offspring telomere length. There is no current consensus as to the heritability of telomere length, and the direction and extent of parental age effects however. To address this, here we experimentally investigate how parental age is associated with telomere length at two time points in early life in a captive population of house sparrows (Passer domesticus). We experimentally separated parental age from sex effects by allowing the parent birds to only mate with young, or old partners. We found that telomere length of the offspring increased between the age of 0.5 and 3 months at the group and individual level, which has been reported previously predominantly in non-avian taxa. We further show that older fathers produced daughters with a greater early-life increase in telomere length, supporting sex-specific inheritance, and or sex-specific non-genetic effects. Overall, our results highlight the need for more studies testing early-life telomere dynamics and sex-specific heritability of telomere length.

scholarly journals Ferrous-glutathione coupling mediates ferroptosis and frailty in Caenorhabditis elegans

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole L. Jenkins ◽  
Simon A. James ◽  
Agus Salim ◽  
Fransisca Sumardy ◽  
Terence P. Speed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Death ◽  
Caenorhabditis Elegans ◽  
Ferrous Iron ◽  
Somatic Tissue ◽  
Glutathione Depletion ◽  
Death Process ◽  
C Elegans ◽  
Regulated Cell Death ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Ageing Rate

All eukaryotes require iron. Replication, detoxification, and a cancer-protective form of regulated cell death termed ferroptosis1, all depend on iron metabolism. Ferrous iron accumulates over adult lifetime in the Caenorhabditis elegans model of ageing2. Here we show that glutathione depletion is coupled to ferrous iron elevation in these animals, and that both occur in late life to prime cells for ferroptosis. We demonstrate that blocking ferroptosis, either by inhibition of lipid peroxidation or by limiting iron retention, mitigates age-related cell death and markedly increases lifespan and healthspan in C. elegans. Temporal scaling of lifespan is not evident when ferroptosis is inhibited, consistent with this cell death process acting at specific life phases to induce organismal frailty, rather than contributing to a constant ageing rate. Because excess age-related iron elevation in somatic tissue, particularly in brain3–5, is thought to contribute to degenerative disease6, 7, our data indicate that post-developmental interventions to limit ferroptosis may promote healthy ageing.

scholarly journals FREQUENCY OF DETECTION OF LPS O-ANTIGENS OF DIFFERENT CAUSATIVE AGENTS IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE DIARRHEAL DISEASES

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
O. F Belaia ◽  
O. A Paevskaya ◽  
S. N Zuevskaya ◽  
E. G Korogodskaia ◽  
K. T Umbetova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Blood Donors ◽  
Clinical Course ◽  
Control Group ◽  
O Antigen ◽  
Intestinal Infections ◽  
Causative Agents ◽  
Elevated Rate ◽  
O Antigens ◽  
Antigenic Load

The aim is to determine the frequency and dynamics of detection of specific lipopolysaccharide (LPS) O-antigens LPS/O-antigens of causative agents in hospitalized diarrhea patients. Materials and methods. A total of 146 hospitalized diarrhea patients were examined with the use of an immunological method of the reaction of coagglutination (RCA) for the presence of LPS O-antigens of Shigella, Salmonella, Yersinia and Campylobacter in feces as markers of major intestinal infections pathogens. The control group was consisted of 40 blood donors. Results. In acute diarrhea patients there was detected the predominance of Yersinia and Salmonella LPS O-antigens over Shigella and Campylobacter; the high frequency of intestinal bacterial mixt-infection in total (68%), as well as elevated rate incidence of Shigella, Salmonella, Campylobacter, Yersinia antigens in mixt-infections in comparison with those in monoinfections (24%). The total O-antigen "load" in patients with mixt-infection was 3 times higher than in patients with monoinfections; with the increasing of LPS/O-antigen "load" the rate of Salmonella inoculation declines. Conclusion. Under the same severity of the clinical course of the disease, the decline of Salmonella inoculation rate in cases of high antigenic "load" may indicate to the presence of the phenomenon of summation of toxic effects of LPS O-antigens when the concentration of each pathogen in the feces is insufficient (for inoculation) for bacteriological examination.

LOCAL IMMUNE STATUS AND ETIOLOGICAL FACTORS IN PARATONSILLITIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 78-86
Author(s):  
T.V. Zolotova ◽  
◽  
A.G. Volkov ◽  
P.A. Kondrashov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inflammatory Diseases ◽  
Immunoglobulin A ◽  
Secretory Iga ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Local Immunity ◽  
Immunomodulatory Agents ◽  
Etiological Factors ◽  
Streptolysin O ◽  
Bacterial Lysates ◽  
Antigenic Load

Paratonsillitis is one of the most common purulent inflammatory diseases, considered as a manifestation of chronic tonsillitis. The aim of the work is to study the state of local immunity by the level of immunoglobulin A in saliva in patients with paratonsillitis and its changes in the treatment process, to determine the level of antistreptolysin-O in serum, as well as to study the etiological factors of paratonsillites in the microbiological assessment of the species composition of flora in smears from the cavity of paratonsillar abscess. Under our observation there were 152: 32 healthy people and 120 patients with paratonsillitis under abecedarian or abscess stage. It was found that in patients with paratonsillitis there is a significant (p<0.001) decrease in the level of secretory immunoglobulin A in saliva, which indicates a violation of local immunity and requires correction. The level of antibodies to streptolysin-O in the serum of patients with paratonsillitis was significantly - 10.25 times higher than in healthy individuals in the control group, which confirms the high streptococcal antigenic load. The results of microbiological examination of smears from the abscess cavity indicated the release of the most frequent pathogens of paratonsillites - Streptococcus β-haemolythicus, Streptococcus Pneumoniae and Staphylococcus Aureus, with bacterial associations prevailing (63.5%). After a course of antimicrobial therapy, supplemented with immunomodulatory agents in the form of bacterial lysates, there was an increase in the level of secretory IgA in saliva in 10-30 days in 3.3-4.5 times. At the same time, the level of antistreptolysin-O significantly decreased. In patients receiving immunomodulatory therapy in the form of bacterial lysates in the complex treatment of paratonsillitis, for the period of observation of 6 months, there was a decrease in the frequency of relapses of the disease by 2 times.

scholarly journals ANTI M. leprae IgM ANTIBODY DETERMINATION BY ULTRAMICROIMMUNOENZYMATIC (UMELISA HANSEN) FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND MONITORING LEPROSY

1998 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana TORRELLA ◽  
Rosa L. SOLIS ◽  
Esther PEREZ ◽  
Yadira MEDINA ◽  
Carlos KERGUELEN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antibody Response ◽  
Clinical Improvement ◽  
Diagnostic Techniques ◽  
Igm Antibody ◽  
Smear Examination ◽  
Early Signal ◽  
Significant Clinical Improvement ◽  
Antibody Levels ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Antigenic Load

The relationship between the IgM antibody response, antigenic load as well as the clinical improvement after chemotherapy was studied in order to obtain useful data for the early diagnosis and monitoring leprosy. A level of 82% (94/115) agreement was obtained between IgM UMELISA HANSEN and slitskin smear examination. Discrepant results were observed in 16 patients who showed positive IgM response despite negative by the skin smear examination. In these patients, the IgM response was seen to be associated to the early signal for bacilli recurrence in the skin. In one of these patients the presence of bacilli was demonstrated in the skin, two months after IgM antibodies being detected by UMELISA HANSEN. Also in one of the treated patients positive by both diagnostic techniques, a remarkable decrease in the IgM antibody levels was seen, correlating with a significant clinical improvement. Moreover it was found a direct relationship between the IgM antibody response and bacterial antigenic load, regardless the time elapsed in the disease's evolution.

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of the Blood Plasma Metabolome of Negligible, Gradual and Rapidly Ageing Fishes

Fishes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oxana P. Trifonova ◽  
Dmitry L. Maslov ◽  
Anton N. Mikhailov ◽  
Konstantin V. Zolotarev ◽  
Kirill V. Nakhod ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Blood Plasma ◽  
Pink Salmon ◽  
Perca Fluviatilis ◽  
Oncorhynchus Gorbuscha ◽  
Oncorhynchus Keta ◽  
Flight Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Acipenser Ruthenus ◽  
Ageing Rate ◽  
Metabolic Conditions

There are a number of different animals that belong to long- and short-lived species and show a various rate of ageing, providing an ideal model to investigate mechanisms of longevity. In this work, a metabolome profiling of blood plasma from fishes with various ageing rates—negligible (Pike Esox Lucius and Sterlet Acipenser ruthenus), gradual (Zander Sander lucioperca and Perch Perca fluviatilis) and rapid (Chum Salmon Oncorhynchus keta and Pink Salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)—was assessed by means of direct infusion to quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Of the 2056 distinct m/z features detected by a mass spectrometry metabolic profiling of blood plasma samples, fifteen metabolites in the classes of dipeptides, fatty acids, glycerolipids, phosphoethanolamines and phosphatidylcholines were significantly associated with ageing rate, independent of species differences. This is the first study of the metabolome of fishes with various ageing rate, and this untargeted approach highlighted the metabolic conditions that may serve to assess the ageing process.

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