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Biological aging alters circadian mechanisms in murine adipose tissue depots.

Sutton GM., Ptitsyn AA., Floyd ZE., Yu G., Wu X., Hamel K.

Animal Study, published in Age (Dordr) (2012) — summary generated from the PubMed abstract.

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Study type
Animal Study
Journal
Age (Dordr) (2012)
Country
Netherlands
Reported sample size
—
Source database
PubMed
PMID
22411258
DOI
10.1007/s11357-012-9389-7

Abstract (original English)

Biological aging alters the metabolism and volume of adipose tissue depots. Recent evidence suggests that circadian mechanisms play a role in promoting adipogenesis, obesity, and lipodystrophy. The current study compared cohorts of younger (5-9 months) and older (24-28 months) C57BL/6 mice as a function of biological age and circadian time. Advanced age significantly reduced the weight of the brown, epididymal, inguinal, and retroperitoneal adipose depots but not total body weight. The older mice reduced their physical activity by >50% and delayed their activity initiation after light offset. The expressed transcriptome in brown and white adipose depots and liver of both cohorts displayed evidence of circadian rhythmicity; however, the oscillating mRNAs differed significantly between age groups and across tissues. The amplitude of Cry1, a component of the negative arm of the circadian apparatus, and downstream regulators such as Rev-erbα were elevated in the older relative to the younger cohorts as a function of circadian time. Overall, transcript levels differed significantly for 557 (inguinal adipose), 1,016 (liver), and 1,021 (brown adipose) expressed sequences between the cohorts as a function of age. These included transcripts encoding proteins within the canonical and non-canonical Wnt pathways. Since the Wnt pathway regulates adipose stem cell differentiation and shares

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  • • This study does not prove SVF is an approved treatment or a replacement for standard care.
  • • This is preclinical work; animal or laboratory results cannot be applied to humans.

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Evidence from laboratory and animal studies provides groundwork for understanding mechanisms and potential before human studies continue.

How we grade evidence
AdipogenesisAdipose TissueAgingAnimalsCell DifferentiationCircadian RhythmDisease Models, AnimalFollow-Up StudiesMaleMice

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