Telomere Restoration Reverses Aging-Related Disease

By dsorbello at Oct. 9, 2013, 7:55 a.m., 28872 hits

Harvard Medical School (US) researchers successfully halt telomere shortening to prompt a reversal of age-related organ atrophy, in a laboratory model of aging.

Telomeres are protective endcaps of DNA, which shorten each time cells divide. Telomere shortening has been linked to the aging process. Ronald A. DePinho, from Harvard Medical School (Massachusetts, USA), and colleagues engineered mice with short telomeres and inactive telomerase to mimic aging. The team then switched telomerase back on, and after four weeks, atrophied tissue had regenerated in several organs, new brain cells were developing, and the mice were living longer. The researchers report that: “Telomerase reactivation in such late generation transcriptase-oestrogen receptor (TERT-ER) mice extends telomeres, reduces DNA damage signalling and associated cellular checkpoint responses, allows resumption of proliferation in quiescent cultures, and eliminates degenerative phenotypes across multiple organs.” Writing that: “Accumulating evidence implicating telomere damage as a driver of age-associated organ decline and disease risk ,” the team submits that: "The marked reversal of systemic degenerative phenotypes in adult mice observed here support the development of regenerative strategies designed to restore telomere integrity.”

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature09603.html

Posts [ 6 ] | Last post Oct. 9, 2013, 7:55 a.m.

#1 - Jan. 2, 2011, 2:29 p.m.

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#2 - Jan. 6, 2011, 5:30 p.m.

martyeisen

Qigong for Longevity
Posted on August 15, 2010 by martyeisen
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#3 - Oct. 28, 2012, 5:07 a.m.

Although research into this field is extremelly exciting, lengthening Telomeres can create “Immortal Cells”. The problem is that Cancer cells are also “Immortal”, and the possibility of inducing Cancer is very real with this type of therapy.

There needs to be more research for safeguards against inducing Cancer.

#4 - Oct. 28, 2012, 4:43 p.m.

Hans J. Kugler, PhD

Big deal!
So, why didn't this paper - published nearly 2 years ago - get more attention?
Because it is merely cute and, besides showing - again - the functions of telomeres (which had already been established) doesn't say anything really new!
Building a telomerase-deficient mouse - - see how it ages - - , and then reactivating telomerase (- - see how it reverses aging) isn't this more of a show-bizz experiment?
Do it on the real thing - like TA-65 - and I'll be impressed and start yodeling.
All this aging, theories of aging, definition of life-long true health (prof. E. Cheraskin, Alabama U. school of medicine; my long-time mentor), and how to interfere with, and reverse aging, is discussed in detail in LIFE-LONG HEALTH; for more details just click on book cover at http://www.antiagingforme.org .

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#5 - Oct. 30, 2012, 12:14 p.m.

NanoDoc

If the Tissues Become Anoxic from Microvascular Arteriosclerosis, the Cells Die Irrespective Of Telomere Status!

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#6 - Oct. 9, 2013, 7:55 a.m.

Telomerase is a reverse transcriptase able to elongate telomeres during cell that rescue of short telomeres by telomerase is sufficient to restore cell .

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