Project description:Resveratrol in high doses has been shown to extend lifespan in some studies in invertebrates and to prevent early mortality in mice fed a high-fat diet. We fed mice from middle age (14-months) to old age (30-months) either a control diet, a low dose of resveratrol (4.9 mg kg-1 day-1), or a calorie restricted (CR) diet and examined genome-wide transcriptional profiles. We report a striking transcriptional overlap of CR and resveratrol in heart, skeletal muscle and brain. Both dietary interventions inhibit gene expression profiles associated with cardiac and skeletal muscle aging. Gene expression profiling suggests that both CR and resveratrol may retard some aspects of aging through alterations in chromatin structure and transcription. Resveratrol, at doses that can be readily achieved in humans, fulfills the definition of a dietary compound that mimics some aspects of CR. Experiment Overall Design: Heart, neocortex tissue, and gastrocnemius muscle was collected from young and old mice at 5 and 30 months of age, respectively; mice were subjected to either a calorie restricted diet or a control diet supplemented with resveratrol
Project description:Resveratrol (3,5,4'-trihydroxystilbene) extends the lifespan of diverse species including yeast, worms, and flies. In these organisms, lifespan extension is dependent on Sir2, a conserved deacetylase proposed to underlie the beneficial effects of caloric restriction (CR). Here we show that resveratrol shifts the physiology of middle-aged mice on a high-calorie diet towards that of mice on a standard diet and significantly increases their survival. Resveratrol produces changes associated with longer lifespan including increased insulin sensitivity, reduced IGF-1, increased AMPK and PGC-1α activity, increased mitochondrial number, and improved motor function. Parametric analysis of gene set enrichment (PAGE) revealed that resveratrol opposed the effects of the high-calorie diet in 144 out of 153 significantly altered pathways. These data show that improving general health in mammals using small molecules is an attainable goal and point to new approaches for treating obesity-related disorders and diseases of ageing. Keywords: Drug treatment
Project description:Resveratrol (3,5,4'-trihydroxystilbene) extends the lifespan of diverse species including yeast, worms, and flies. In these organisms, lifespan extension is dependent on Sir2, a conserved deacetylase proposed to underlie the beneficial effects of caloric restriction (CR). Here we show that resveratrol shifts the physiology of middle-aged mice on a high-calorie diet towards that of mice on a standard diet and significantly increases their survival. Resveratrol produces changes associated with longer lifespan including increased insulin sensitivity, reduced IGF-1, increased AMPK and PGC-1α activity, increased mitochondrial number, and improved motor function. Parametric analysis of gene set enrichment (PAGE) revealed that resveratrol opposed the effects of the high-calorie diet in 144 out of 153 significantly altered pathways. These data show that improving general health in mammals using small molecules is an attainable goal and point to new approaches for treating obesity-related disorders and diseases of ageing. Experiment Overall Design: One-year-old male C57BL/6 mice were maintained on AIN-93G standard diet (SD), AIN-93G modified to provide 60% of calories from fat (HC), or HC diet with the addition of 0.04% resveratrol (HCR). Total RNA from the livers of 5 replicate animals from the first 2 groups and 4 from the 3rd group were labeled and hybridized to Agilent 44K whole genome microarrays.
Project description:Resveratrol in high doses has been shown to extend lifespan in some studies in invertebrates and to prevent early mortality in mice fed a high-fat diet. We fed mice from middle age (14-months) to old age (30-months) either a control diet, a low dose of resveratrol (4.9 mg kg-1 day-1), or a calorie restricted (CR) diet and examined genome-wide transcriptional profiles. We report a striking transcriptional overlap of CR and resveratrol in heart, skeletal muscle and brain. Both dietary interventions inhibit gene expression profiles associated with cardiac and skeletal muscle aging. Gene expression profiling suggests that both CR and resveratrol may retard some aspects of aging through alterations in chromatin structure and transcription. Resveratrol, at doses that can be readily achieved in humans, fulfills the definition of a dietary compound that mimics some aspects of CR. Keywords: aging intervention study
Project description:Feeding resveratrol to Drosophila melanogaster extends lifespan. Studies of microarray show similarities between calorie/dietary restriction and resveratrol on both a gene expression and biological pathway level. 9 samples: 3 biological replicates each of normal diet, restricted diet and normal diet plus resveratrol
Project description:The aim of this study was to assess whether chronic treatment with RPV can modulate the progression of chronic liver disease, especially of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), through a nutritional model in wild-type mice Mice were daily treated with RPV (p.o.) and fed with normal or high fat diet during 3 months to induce fatty liver disease
Project description:Werner syndrome (WS) is a rare disorder characterized by the premature onset of a number of age-related diseases. The gene responsible for WS is believed to be involved in different aspects of transcription, replication, and/or DNA repair. We generated a mouse model with a deletion in the helicase domain of the murine WRN homologue that recapitulates most of the WS phenotypes including an abnormal hyaluronic acid excretion, higher reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels, increased genomic instability and cancer incidence resulting in a 10-15% decreased life span expectancy. In addition, WS patients and Wrn mutant mice show hallmarks of a metabolic syndrome including premature visceral obesity, hypertriglyceridemia, insulin-resistant diabetes type 2 and associated cardiovascular diseases. In this study, we compared the expression profile of liver tissues from 9 months old Wrn mutant treated with a standard diet supplemented with 0.04% resveratrol and wild type animals fed with standard diet only. Resveratrol is a calorie restriction mimetic. Gene set enrichment analysis of the microarray data indicated that reseveratrol-treated Wrn mutant mice exhibited down-regulation of genes normally decreased in several transgenic mouse models of hepatoma. In addition, resvratrol-treated Wrn mutant mice also exhibited a decrease in the expression of genes involved fatty acid metabolism and PPAR signaling pathways. Resvratrol-treated Wrn mutant mice also increased the expression of genes involved in steroid and cholesterol biosynthesis, xenobiotic metabolisms as well as inflammation. Finally, resveratrol improved insulin-resistance and the hyperglycemia but had no impact on dyslipidemia and mean life span of Wrn mutant mice. Microarray analyses were performed on the liver tissues of 9 months old mice. Four independent biological replicates of this experiment (wild type vs resveratrol treated Wrn helicase mutant mice) were carried out with a dye swap on two replicates of each genotype.
Project description:The objective of the experiment was to dissect the effects of a high-fat diet on juvenile adipose tissue gene expression under conditions of excess calorie intake versus normal calorie intake in comparison to a standard low-fat diet. For this purpose juvenile mice were fed (A) a standard low-fat diet (CD), (B) a high-fat diet ad libitum (excess calorie intake) (HFD) and (C) a high-fat diet with calorie consumption restricted to the calorie consumption of the CD diet (R-HFD). RNA expression was profiled after 1 week of feeding in the periuterine fat depot.
Project description:Recent studies have shown that FGF21 is a common target for dietary polyphenol intervention and nutritional restriction. FGF21 is also a newly recognized target of GLP-1R agonists (GLP-1RAs). Here we ask whether hepatic FGF21 is required for dietary polyphenols in exerting their metabolic beneficial effects. Liver-specific FGF21 null mice (lFgf21-/-) were utilized in current study. We found that on chow diet, no appreciable defect on glucose disposal was observed in male or female lFgf21-/- mice, while fat tolerance was impaired in male but not female lFgf21-/- mice, associated with elevated serum TG level, reduced hepatic expression of Ehhadh and Ppargc1. On high-fat-high-fructose (HFHF) diet challenge, Fgf21fl/fl mice but not lFgf21-/- mice exhibited response to curcumin intervention on reducing body weight and serum TG, and on improving fat tolerance. Resveratrol intervention also affected hepatic FGF21 expression and its downstream effectors. Metabolic beneficial effects of resveratrol intervention observed in HFHF diet challenged Fgf21fl/fl mice were either absent or attenuated in lFgf21-/- mice. Thus, hepatic FGF21 is required for curcumin and resveratrol in exerting their metabolic beneficial effect. Recognition that FGF21 is the common target of GLP-1RAs and dietary intervention brings us a novel angle in studying metabolic disease treatment and prevention.