The central role of DNA damage in the ageing process

B Schumacher, J Pothof, J Vijg, JHJ Hoeijmakers - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Ageing is a complex, multifaceted process leading to widespread functional decline that
affects every organ and tissue, but it remains unknown whether ageing has a unifying causal …

DNA damage—how and why we age?

M Yousefzadeh, C Henpita, R Vyas, C Soto-Palma… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Aging is a complex process that results in loss of the ability to reattain homeostasis following
stress, leading, thereby, to increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Many factors contribute …

Genome-wide RNA polymerase stalling shapes the transcriptome during aging

A Gyenis, J Chang, JJPG Demmers, ST Bruens… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Gene expression profiling has identified numerous processes altered in aging, but how
these changes arise is largely unknown. Here we combined nascent RNA sequencing and …

Inflammation, epigenetics, and metabolism converge to cell senescence and ageing: the regulation and intervention

X Zhu, Z Chen, W Shen, G Huang, JM Sedivy… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Remarkable progress in ageing research has been achieved over the past decades.
General perceptions and experimental evidence pinpoint that the decline of physical …

Sarcopenia: aging-related loss of muscle mass and function

L Larsson, H Degens, M Li, L Salviati… - Physiological …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Sarcopenia is a loss of muscle mass and function in the elderly that reduces mobility,
diminishes quality of life, and can lead to fall-related injuries, which require costly …

Dietary regulation in health and disease

Q Wu, ZJ Gao, X Yu, P Wang - Signal Transduction and Targeted …, 2022 - nature.com
Nutriments have been deemed to impact all physiopathologic processes. Recent evidences
in molecular medicine and clinical trials have demonstrated that adequate nutrition …

Hallmarks of brain aging: adaptive and pathological modification by metabolic states

MP Mattson, TV Arumugam - Cell metabolism, 2018 - cell.com
During aging, the cellular milieu of the brain exhibits tell-tale signs of compromised
bioenergetics, impaired adaptive neuroplasticity and resilience, aberrant neuronal network …

Lifelong restriction of dietary branched-chain amino acids has sex-specific benefits for frailty and life span in mice

NE Richardson, EN Konon, HS Schuster, AT Mitchell… - Nature Aging, 2021 - nature.com
Protein-restricted diets promote health and longevity in many species. While the precise
components of a protein-restricted diet that mediate the beneficial effects to longevity have …

Aging is associated with a systemic length-associated transcriptome imbalance

T Stoeger, RA Grant, AC McQuattie-Pimentel… - Nature Aging, 2022 - nature.com
Aging is among the most important risk factors for morbidity and mortality. To contribute
toward a molecular understanding of aging, we analyzed age-resolved transcriptomic data …

Aldehyde-driven transcriptional stress triggers an anorexic DNA damage response

L Mulderrig, JI Garaycoechea, ZK Tuong, CL Millington… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Endogenous DNA damage can perturb transcription, triggering a multifaceted cellular
response that repairs the damage, degrades RNA polymerase II and shuts down global …