[HTML][HTML] Role of IGF-1 system in the modulation of longevity: controversies and new insights from a centenarians' perspective

G Vitale, G Pellegrino, M Vollery… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Human aging is currently defined as a physiological decline of biological functions in the
body with a continual adaptation to internal and external damaging. The endocrine system …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting growth hormone function: strategies and therapeutic applications

M Lu, JU Flanagan, RJ Langley, MP Hay… - Signal transduction and …, 2019 - nature.com
Human growth hormone (GH) is a classical pituitary endocrine hormone that is essential for
normal postnatal growth and has pleiotropic effects across multiple physiological systems …

[HTML][HTML] Refining epigenetic prediction of chronological and biological age

E Bernabeu, DL McCartney, DA Gadd, RF Hillary… - Genome Medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background Epigenetic clocks can track both chronological age (cAge) and biological age
(bAge). The latter is typically defined by physiological biomarkers and risk of adverse health …

Widespread sex dimorphism in aging and age-related diseases

NK Sampathkumar, JI Bravo, Y Chen, PS Danthi… - Human genetics, 2020 - Springer
Although aging is a conserved phenomenon across evolutionary distant species, aspects of
the aging process have been found to differ between males and females of the same …

[HTML][HTML] Growth hormone and aging: updated review

A Bartke - The World Journal of Men's Health, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Role of growth hormone (GH) in mammalian aging is actively explored in clinical,
epidemiological, and experimental studies. The age-related decline in GH levels is variously …

[HTML][HTML] Common pathogenetic mechanisms underlying aging and tumor and means of interventions

W Shen, J He, T Hou, J Si, S Chen - Aging and disease, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recently, there has been an increase in the incidence of malignant tumors among the older
population. Moreover, there is an association between aging and cancer. During the …

[HTML][HTML] Cell non-autonomous regulation of cerebrovascular aging processes by the somatotropic axis

MA Bickel, B Csik, R Gulej, A Ungvari… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Age-related cerebrovascular pathologies, ranging from cerebromicrovascular functional and
structural alterations to large vessel atherosclerosis, promote the genesis of vascular …

The GH/IGF-1 axis in a critical period early in life determines cellular DNA repair capacity by altering transcriptional regulation of DNA repair-related genes …

A Podlutsky, MN Valcarcel-Ares, K Yancey… - Geroscience, 2017 - Springer
Experimental, clinical, and epidemiological findings support the concept of developmental
origins of health and disease (DOHAD), suggesting that early-life hormonal influences …

Why and how do termite kings and queens live so long?

E Tasaki, M Takata, K Matsuura - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Lifespan varies greatly across the tree of life. Of the various explanations for this
phenomenon, those that involve trade-offs between reproduction and longevity have gained …

Probing pedomorphy and prolonged lifespan in naked mole-rats and dwarf mice

R Buffenstein, KN Lewis, PA Gibney, V Narayan… - …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Pedomorphy, maintenance of juvenile traits throughout life, is most pronounced in
extraordinarily long-lived naked mole-rats. Many of these traits (eg, slow growth rates, low …