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Abstract
Calorie restriction (CR) is a dietary regimen that supports healthy aging. In this study, we investigated the systemic and liver-specific responses caused by a diet switch to a medium-fat (MF) diet in 24-month-old lifelong, CR-exposed mice. This study aimed to increase the knowledge base on dietary alterations of gerontological relevance. Nine-week-old C57BL/6J mice were exposed either to a control, CR, or MF diet. At the age of 24 months, a subset of mice of the CR group was transferred to ad libitumMF feeding (CR-MF). The mice were sacrificed at the age of 28 months, and then, biochemical and molecular analyses were performed. Our results showed that, despite the long-term exposure to the CR regimen, mice in the CR-MF group displayed hyperphagia, rapid weight gain, and hepatic steatosis. However, no hepatic fibrosis/injury or alteration in CR-improved survival was observed in the diet switch group. The liver transcriptomic profile of CR-MF mice largely shifted to a profile similar to the MF-fed animals but leaving ~22% of the 1,578 differentially regulated genes between the CR and MF diet groups comparable with the expression of the lifelong CR group. Therefore, although the diet switch was performed at an old age, the CR-MF-exposed mice showed plasticity in coping with the challenge of a MF diet without developing severe liver pathologies.
Original language | English |
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Article number | e12696 |
Journal | Aging Cell |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 21 Dec 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2018 |
Keywords
- NAFLD
- Aging
- DNA methylation
- Glycomics
- Liver
- Long-term CR
- Transcriptomics
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Plasticity of lifelong calorie-restricted C57BL/6J mice in adapting to a medium-fat diet intervention at old age
Rusli, F. (Creator), Boekschoten, M. V. (Creator), Borelli, V. (Creator), Sun, C. (Creator), Lute, C. (Creator), Menke, A. L. (Creator), van den Heuvel, J. (Creator), Salvioli, S. (Creator), Franceschi, C. (Creator), Müller, M. (Creator) & Steegenga, W. T. (Creator), Wageningen University, 24 Jan 2018
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE102593
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IDEAL: Integrated research on DEvelopmental determinants of Aging and Longevity
1/02/11 → 31/01/16
Project: EU research project