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Skeletal muscle metabolomic markers underlying the enhanced exercise-induced hypertrophy response to resistance training in older adults
Resistance training (RT) is an effective intervention for improving muscle health and metabolism in ageing, but the degree of responsiveness (hypertrophy) to RT varies substantially. We examined muscle metabolomic profiles before and after 10-weeks RT in older adults classified into upper (UPPER) and lower (LOWER) tertiles of hypertrophy to identify key metabolic adaptation differences. Fifty older adults (23 males, 27 females, mean 68.2 years old) completed 10 weeks of RT combined with whey...
Inflammageing and clonal haematopoiesis interplay and their impact on human disease
Clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) is an ageing-related condition associated with a substantial fraction of circulating leukocytes having descended from a single somatically mutated haematopoietic stem cell (HSC). CHIP increases the risk of haematological malignancies and several chronic diseases (for example, cardiovascular pathologies) and contributes to persistent, low-grade inflammation or inflammageing. Inflammageing, in turn, promotes functional impairment of normal...
Brain neuron-derived WDFY1 induces bone loss
Brain health is closely linked to bone homeostasis. Skeletal aging is characterized by inadequate bone formation and marrow adiposity, but whether the brain contributes to this imbalance remains unknown. This study shows that aged brain neurons, mainly those in the hippocampus and cerebral cortex, produce excess WD repeat and FYVE domain containing 1 (WDFY1) protein and transfer it to the bone via extracellular vesicles (EVs), leading to bone-fat imbalance and osteoporosis. Increasing brain...
Homogeneous crystallization via sustained solvent-extraction channels for methylammonium-free all-perovskite tandem solar cells
Replacing volatile methylammonium (MA^(+)) with formamidinium (FA^(+)) or cesium (Cs^(+)) cations in mixed Pb-Sn perovskite compositions improves thermal resilience. Nevertheless, the low-solubility Cs-based perovskite tends to preferentially crystallize into a dense Cs-rich surface layer during the AS-assisted crystallization process, which impedes the AS to extract the internal solvent. Here, we introduce a multi-Lewis-base modulator to maintain sustained solvent-extraction channels (SSC) open...
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