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Age-related changes of leptin and leptin receptor variants in healthy elderly and long-lived adults.
Roszkowska-Gancarz, Malgorzata; Jonas, Marta; Owczarz, Magdalena; Kurylowicz, Alina; Polosak, Jacek; Franek, Edward; Slusarczyk, Przemyslaw; Mossakowska, Malgorzata; Puzianowska-Kuznicka, Monika.
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  • Roszkowska-Gancarz M; Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Center of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland.
Geriatr Gerontol Int ; 15(3): 365-71, 2015 Mar.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24612398
AIM: Aging is usually associated with hyperleptinemia and leptin resistance, both increasing the risk of age-related diseases. It was relevant to establish if healthily aging, non-obese individuals develop changes in leptin, the soluble leptin receptor (OB-Re), free leptin index (FLI), in methylation of the leptin receptor gene (LEPR) promoter, and in the expression of long (OB-Rb) and short (OB-Ra) leptin receptor isoforms. METHODS: We analyzed these parameters in 38 young (aged 26.8 ± 3.6 years), 37 elderly (aged 64.7 ± 3.1 years) and 39 long-lived (aged 94.2 ± 3.7 years) healthy, non-obese Polish Caucasians. RESULTS: In elderly men, the median concentration of leptin and the median FLI were significantly higher than in young men (P = 0.009 and P = 0.007, respectively), which was probably partly due to a higher mean body mass index of the elderly study participants. In peripheral blood mononuclear cells, the expression of functionally active OB-Rb did not depend on age or sex, whereas the expression of OB-Ra was lower in the elderly and long-lived groups than in the young group (P < 0.0001 and P = 0.002, respectively), mostly due to changes observed in women. Most likely, this age-related decrease was not due to hypermethylation of the LEPR promoter, as methylation of the +20 to +281 fragment of the CpG island did not change with age. CONCLUSIONS: In healthy, non-obese individuals, only some elements of the leptin axis slightly change with age. On that basis, we suggest that proper function of this axis might be required for this particular phenotype of aging. The present results should, however, be replicated in prospective studies and in other ethnic groups.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Envelhecimento / RNA / Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento / Leptina / Dislipidemias / Receptores para Leptina Tipo de estudo: Observational_studies / Prevalence_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Aged / Aged80 / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged País como assunto: Europa Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2015 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Envelhecimento / RNA / Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento / Leptina / Dislipidemias / Receptores para Leptina Tipo de estudo: Observational_studies / Prevalence_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Aged / Aged80 / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged País como assunto: Europa Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2015 Tipo de documento: Article