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Interventions Testing Program for Life-Extending Drugs in Mice
TLDR The Interventions Testing Program evaluates potential life-extending drugs in genetically heterogeneous mice to ensure accurate and reproducible results, highlighting successes with drugs like rapamycin and acarbose. Research is ongoing to explore the impact of various drugs on lifespan, with a focus on injectables like gpld1 and irison to slow down the aging process.
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The Interventions Testing Program evaluates potential life-extending interventions in mice to find drugs that slow aging and extend lifespan, with notable successes including rapamycin, 17-alpha estradiol, acarbose, and canagaflozin.
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The Interventions Testing Program uses genetically heterogeneous mice, UMHET3, instead of standard inbred mice like C57 black six, to ensure more accurate and reproducible results in testing potential life-extending interventions.
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Inbred mice used in aging research are almost always sick and not representative of the general mouse population, leading to inaccurate results and limited translational insights.
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The Interventions Testing Program uses a consistent number of mice in control and treatment groups each year to ensure statistical power in detecting effects of longevity drugs.
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The Interventions Testing Program carefully assesses drug levels in mice to ensure effectiveness before conducting lifespan experiments.
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Drugs like 17 alpha estradiol and acarbose show lifespan benefits even when started in middle age in male mice, with potential sex-specific differences in drug concentrations impacting effectiveness.
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Encapsulated rapamycin administered to middle-aged mice unexpectedly extended lifespan, revealing potential late-stage age-related processes that can be targeted by drugs.
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The Collaborative Interactions Program (CIP) is being replaced by the Interventional Biojontology Repository, where tissues will be requested directly from the National Aging Institute, potentially slowing down research progress.
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Drugs that slow the mortality rate and increase longevity are similar in specificity to the ucp1 story, with various biomarkers showing changes in response to interventions.
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Exercise may improve cognition by increasing gpld1 production in the liver, which is linked to cap-independent translation of proteins, highlighting the importance of proteomic assessment in understanding aging processes.
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Protein levels in aging kidneys show significant differences compared to corresponding RNA levels, indicating complex post-transcriptional processes that influence the proteome.
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Mice starting interventions at two weeks of age showed positive effects on lifespan, while starting at four weeks had no impact, with ongoing research focusing on bridging the gap between internal tissue aging indicators and plasma for potential human applications.
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Research is focusing on injectables like gpld1 and irison to impact aging at a fundamental level, aiming to slow down the aging process and delay various aspects of aging.
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Research on 17 alpha estradiol, despite its unclear mechanism of action, has shown significant lifespan increases in male mice, surpassing females, and is being further explored in combination with rapamycin for potential longevity benefits.
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The Interventions Testing Program (ITP) has highlighted notable failures in drugs like resveratrol, metformin, and nicotinamide riboside, showing that while these drugs did not extend mouse lifespan, there is still potential for further exploration and combination with other drugs for longevity benefits.
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The failure of resveratrol in the Interventions Testing Program is seen as a strong indicator that the drug may not work in humans or mice, contrasting with the potential viability of metformin and nicotinamide riboside for further exploration in longevity studies.
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Non-prescription medicines are being tested for their potential to slow aging in mice, raising questions about their mechanisms and efficacy in humans.
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Senescent cells are rare in the skin of people of any age, with the drug Feisiden showing no lifespan effect in mice, leaving the question of whether removing senescent cells is beneficial still unanswered.
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