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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-8-18
pubmed:abstractText
Oxidative stress, an imbalance between endogenous levels of oxygen radicals and antioxidative defense, increases with aging. However, it is not clear which of these two factors is the more critical. To clarify the production of oxygen radicals increases with age, we examined oxygen radical-dependent chemiluminescent signals in ex vivo brain slices using a novel photonic imaging method. The chemiluminescent intensity was significantly decreased by the membrane permeable superoxide dismutase (SOD)/catalase mimic, but not by Cu,Zn-SOD. Inhibitors for complex I, III, and IV of the mitochondrial electron transport chain transiently enhanced the chemiluminescent signal. The superoxide-dependent chemiluminescent intensity in senescence accelerated mouse (SAM) brain tissues increases with age. Moreover, the slope of the age-dependent increase was steeper in SAMP10, a strain characterized by a short lifespan and atrophy in the frontal cerebral cortex, than the senescence-resistant strain SAMR1, which has a longer lifespan. An increase in chemiluminescence with age was also observed in C57/BL6 mice, Wistar rats, and pigeons, although levels of chemiluminescence were lower in the pigeons than murines. The rate of age-related increases of superoxide-dependent chemiluminescence was inversely related to the maximum lifespan of the animals. The activity of superoxide dismutase was unchanged during the aging process in the brain. This suggested that superoxide production itself may increase with age. We speculated that reactive oxygen may be a signal to determine the aging process.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1474-9726
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
459-69
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Aging, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Birds, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Cell Hypoxia, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Columbidae, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Electron Transport, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Ethylenediamines, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Longevity, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Luminescent Measurements, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Male, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Mammals, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Mitochondria, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Organometallic Compounds, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Oxygen, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Rats, Wistar, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Sodium Cyanide, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Superoxide Dismutase, pubmed-meshheading:18419797-Superoxides
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Age-related increase of superoxide generation in the brains of mammals and birds.
pubmed:affiliation
Research Team for Molecular Biomarker, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo 173-0015, Japan. tsasaki@center.tmig.or.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't