Aging & Longevity

CONCLUSIONS: These findings highlight the potential of Internet use as an intervention to mitigate loneliness among older adults during major public health crises, such as the COVID-19, by promoting social participation and online social contact. This provides an implication for developing strategies to support the older population during future crises.

CONCLUSION: Our study showed that the dietary patterns of older adults in the Philippines were associated with sociodemographic factors, lifestyle, and nutritional status. This study sheds light on understanding better the role of sex, age, SES, educational attainment, and lifestyle factors, nutritional status in influencing dietary patterns of older adults. Our findings make a valuable contribution in crafting specific and timely nutrition-focused interventions for the older population in...

Lamin A/C (LMNA), a key component of the nuclear envelope, is essential for maintaining nuclear integrity and genome organization [W. Xie et al., Curr. Biol. 26, 2651-2658 (2016)]. While LMNA dysregulation has been implicated in genomic instability across cancer and aging, the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood [S. Graziano et al., Nucleus 9, 258-275 (2018)]. Here, we define a mechanistic role for LMNA in preserving genome stability in small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), a malignancy...

In multicellular organisms, sensory perception affects many aspects of behavior and physiology. Perception of environmental stressors like food scarcity often leads to physiological changes that promote survival and slow aging. However, recent work shows that perception of attractive food smells can block the health benefits of dietary restriction in multiple model organisms. While it is known that sensory perception and cell nonautonomous signaling can modulate health and longevity, our...

CONCLUSION: The study offers insights into early detection and prevention strategies for healthy aging. Assuming that physical and cognitive domains are primarily driven by age-related biological changes, our findings support theories proposing that biological changes precede functional decline, and theories emphasizing the importance of psychosocial resilience. Moreover, this study highlights the potential of adopting a complex systems approach and innovative within-person analytical methods in...

CONCLUSION: This study highlights the heterogeneity of functional transitions during the aging process. Within this cohort, orientation emerged as the most consistent protective factor against functional deterioration. The protective role of orientation is likely attributable not only to its fundamental importance for performing essential functional tasks, but also as a key early indicator of mild cognitive impairment and dementia. These findings underscore that distinct cognitive predictors can...

CONCLUSIONS: Following hospitalization for stroke and hip fracture, discharge to an IRF was associated with lower mortality relative to SNF. However, given the potential for unmeasured confounding, this association should be interpreted with caution. Careful post-acute care referral protocols are critical to ensure good patient outcomes.

p53 is a key tumor suppressor, and mutations in the p53 gene occur in more than half of all human cancers. p53, which is under tight and complex regulation in cells, functions primarily as a transcription factor regulating genes involved in many cellular processes, including cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, senescence, ferroptosis, and metabolism, thereby maintaining genomic integrity and preventing tumorigenesis. While the cell-intrinsic functions of p53, which contribute to its tumor-suppressive...

A decline in food-searching behavior of post-reproductive animals can benefit the population and possibly be programmed by the genome despite its detrimental effect on an individual. We investigated the genetic program of age-dependent decline in chemotaxis behavior toward an odorant secreted from bacterial food in C. elegans. Through a novel forward genetic screen, we identified the gene encoding a nuclear hormone receptor, nhr-76, whose mutants ameliorate the age-dependent chemotaxis decline....

Early detection and late-stage cell fate assessment are key factors to develop therapeutic strategies, although current methods cannot capture early responses or distinguish multiple injury states, especially in ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis)-sensitive cells. Here, we introduce a method to simultaneously detect variations in RNA and DNA under near-infrared photoexcitation. Using a pyrazinacene-based probe (TEG(8)-N14), we unexpectedly achieved discrimination of multiple cell states, including...

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We establish a click reaction-based workflow (tissue clearing coupled with click-chemistry in 3D, C⁴-3D) to visualize 5-ethynyl-2'-deoxyuridine (EdU) in whole mouse brain tissue cleared by CUBIC, iDisco+, and PACT. C⁴-3D was compatible with immunostaining, nuclear staining, and a fluorescent reporter mouse. Machine learning-based identification of EdU-positive nuclear coordinates followed by normalization for the Allen Brain Atlas revealed that proliferating neuronal progenitors were enriched in...

Extracellular matrix homeostasis is crucial for hyaline cartilage integrity, however, the mechanism of extracellular matrix homeostasis in hyaline cartilage is poorly understood. Single-cell sequencing shows that VGLL4 is highly expressed in chondrocytes but declines after injury/aging. VGLL4 deficiency impairs collagen/elastin formation, causes extracellular matrix disorganization and osteoarthritis in Col2-CreERT2; Vgll4^(fl/fl) mice, and is exacerbated by destabilization of the medial...

Tissue structure and molecular circuitry in the colon can be profoundly impacted by systemic age-related effects but many of the underlying molecular cues remain unclear. Here, we build a cellular and spatial atlas of the colon across three anatomical regions and 11 age groups, encompassing ~1,500 mouse gut tissues profiled by spatial transcriptomics and ~400,000 single nucleus RNA-sequencing profiles. We develop a computational framework, cSplotch, which learns a hierarchical Bayesian model of...

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Relative fat mass (RFM) is a more accurate measure of body fat percentage than body mass index (BMI). However, its association with cardiometabolic multimorbidity (CMM) and its predictive value have not been examined. This study evaluated and compared the associations and predictive utility of RFM and BMI for CMM. We analyzed data from 3,348 adults (mean age 64 years; 45.1% male) in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing who were free of hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, and...

Torque Teno Virus (TTV) is a widespread commensal virus within the human virome, characterized by a high prevalence in human population and an unclear pathogenic role. Over the past three decades, TTV has garnered increasing attention due to its ability to establish lifelong chronic viremia, which intriguingly fluctuates among individuals in relation to immune competence status, with a typical peak after an organ transplantation, followed by a plateau and a slow decrease. The regulatory...

CONCLUSION: The prevalence of depressive symptoms among older women in institutional care in south-western Poland is moderate. The intensity of these depressive symptoms lowers the overall quality of life of care centre residents, as well as their self-assessment of health, and affects their quality of life in the psychological, social, and environmental domains.

CONCLUSIONS: The disability risk prediction model provided a real-time digital prediction mechanism to identify high-risk groups of disability among elderly adults, serving as a valuable decision-making tool for disability prevention and the allocation of medical care resources. Developing prevention and treatment strategies targeting the chronic diseases identified as significant contributors to disability by the predictive model might lead to more effective prevention of disability in elderly...

CONCLUSION: Duration of symptoms before the commencement of treatment and illness cognition play a significant role in the quality of life of older adults. It is recommended that caregivers of older adults and clinicians consider these factors to improve illness progression and quality of life among the elderly. Qualitative inquiry suggests the need for increased public awareness and stakeholder involvement in interventions for the elderly.