| CCL2 | chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 2 | CCL2 levels are evaluated in old unpaired and young heterochronic (with old animals) paired mice [21886162]. | House mouse |
| Chek2 | CHK2 checkpoint homolog (S. pombe) | Mice hypomorphic for Brca1 and double mutant for chk2 exhibit signs of premature ageing. | House mouse |
| Cdkn1a | Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1A | Deletion of Cdkna1 (alias p21) prolongs the lifespan of telomerase-deficient mice with dysfunctional telomeres and improves the repopulation capacity and self-renewal of hematopoietic stem cells [17143283].
The p21(-/-) strains like the Cdkn1a(tmi/Tyj) exhibits enormous regenerative capacities as it closes ear holes similar to MRL mice [20231440; 21722344]. | House mouse |
| Cdkn2a | cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A | Cdkn2a encodes different transcripts involved mostly in cell cycle regulation and cellular senescence [12882406], but it can also act as a tumor suppressor. Its expression level increase with age in rodents [15520862]. super-Ink4a/Arf mice carrying a transgenic copy of a large genomic segment containing an intact and complete copy of the Cdkn2a (a.k.a. Ink4a/Arf) gene are significantly protected from cancer and had no indication of accelerated aging. Cells derived from super-Ink4a/Arf mice have increased resistance to in vitro immortalization and oncogenic transformation [15520276]. Loss of Cdkn2a in mice results in tumour susceptibility [11544530]. Mice deficient in Cdkn2a have smaller age-related decline in self-renewal potential as this process is associated with increasing levels of Cdkn2a [16957738].
Increased levels of p16 are associated with aging (Krishnamurthy et al., 2006; Molofsky et al., 2006) and a bona fide marker of cellular senescence (Collado et al., 2007). p16INK4a accumulates in many tissues as a function of advancing age (Krishnamurthy et al., 2004; Nielsen et al., 1999; Zindy et al., 1997) and is an effector of senescence (Campisi, 2003; Park et al., 2004),
p16INK4a is a potent inhibitor of proliferative kinase Cdk4 (Lowe and Sherr, 2003) which is essential for pancreatic ?-cell proliferation in adult mammals (Rane et al., 1999; Tsutsui et al., 1999). p16INK4a constrains islet proliferation and regeneration in an age-dependent manner. Expression of the p16INK4a transcript is enriched in purified islets compared with the exocrine pancreas and islet-specific expression of p16INK4a increases markedly with aging (Krishnamurthy et al., 2006).
Aging in mammals is associated with reduced regenerative capacity in tissues that contain stem cells (Chien and Karsenty, 2005) which is probably partially caused by senescence of progenitors with age (Campisi, 2005; Lombard et al., 2005).
Progenitor proliferation in subventricular zone and neurogenesis in the olfactory bulb as well as multipotent progenitor frequency and self-renewal potential, all decline with ageing the mouse forebrain. The decline in progenitor frequency and function correlate with increased expression of p16INK4a (Molofsky et al., 2006).
Aging p16INK4a-deficient mice exhibit a significantly smaller decline in subventricular zone proliferation, olfactory bulb neurogenesis and the frequency and self-renewal potential of multipotent progenitors (Molofsky et al., 2006).
p16 expression in skin cells is significantly lower the the group that has a strong family history of longevity. As such a younger biological age associates with lower levels of p16INKfa positive cells [22612594].
p16 expression increases exponentially with age. Expression of p16INK4a with age does not predict cancer development. p16INK4a activation is a characteristic of all emerging cancers [http://denigma.de/url/3n].
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| Coq7 | demethyl-Q 7 | Mice heterozygous in Coq7 live about 15 to 30% longer than controls [16195414]. Transgenic overexpression of mouse Coq7 reverts the extended lifespan of clk-1 mutants in C. elegans [11511092].
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| — | Diabenol | In female NMRI and transgenic HER-2/neu mice supplementation of diabenol with drinking water 5 times a week since the age of 2 months, increases survival and inhibits spontaneous carcinogenesis.
In NMRI diabenol does not influence body weight gain dynamics, food and water consumption, but slowed down age-related disturbances in estrous function and increases the lifespan of all and 10% most long-living ones. Diabenol treatment in NMRI mice also inhibits spontaneous tumor incidence (mammary and lymphomas mainly) and increases mammary tumor latency. Diabenol treatment slows down age-related changes in estrous function in HER-2/neu mice, but fails to influence survival and slightly inhibited the incidence and decrease the size of mammary adenocarcinoma metastasis into the lung [15754958]. | House mouse |
| Dgat1 | Diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 1 | Deficiency in Dagat1 promotes leanless and extends mean, median and oldest 10% survival by 23, 26 and 9% without limiting food intake [22291164]. | House mouse |
| Drd4 | Dopamine D4 Receptor | Drd4 knockout mice, when compared with wild-type and heterozygous mice, display a 7 - 9.7% decrease in lifespan, reduced spontaneous locomotor activity, and no lifespan increase when reared in an enriched environment [23283341]. | House mouse |
| Efemp1 | Epidermal growth factor-containing fibulin-like extracellular matrix protein 1 | Efemp1 knockout mice exhibited an early onset of aging-associated phenotypes including a 20% shorted median lifespan and 30% shorter maximum lifespan, decreased body mass, lordokyphosis, reduced hair growth, and atrophy [17872905]. | House mouse |
| HNRNPD | eterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein D (AU-rich element RNA binding protein 1, 37kDa) | HNRNPD controls inflammation by turning off the inflammatory response to stop the onset of septic shock. Cessation of inflammatory cytokine respisne is mediated partly through cytokine mRNA degradation facilitated by RNA-binding proteins, including HNRNPD. HNRNPD deletion leads to accelerated aging as evidenced by strinking telomere erosion, markedly increased DNA damage repsosne at telomere ends, pronounced cellular senescence and rapid premature aging that increases with successive generations. HNRNPD which is a family of four related genes also maintains the integrity of chromosomes by activating telomerase, because HNRNPD strongly activates the transcription promoter for Tert [Pont et al., 2012]. | House mouse |
| Ercc2 | Excision repair cross-complementing rodent repair deficiency, complementation group 2 | Mutations in Ercc2 increases cancer incidence and appear to accelerate ageing. Homozyogus mutation of Ercc2 results in an extreme shortening (71%) of lifespan (mean lifespan = 7 months) relative to wild-type (mean lifespan = 24 months) [de Boer et al. 2002]. The shortened lifespan of the mutant mouse is accompanied by symptoms of premature aging including osteoporosis, early greying, cahexia, and infertility. It provides a mouse model for the britte hair disorder trichothiodystrophy (TTD) as it phenotypes include britte hair, UV sensitivity, and developmental defects [9651581]. | House mouse |
| Ercc4 | Excision repair cross-complementing rodent repair deficiency, complementation group 4 | ERCC4-ERCC1-deficient mice exhibit signs of premature aging [17183314]. | House mouse |
| Fgf23 | Fibroblast growth factor 23 | Fgf23 knockouts have a short lifespan and display premature aging-like symptoms including kyphosis, muscle wasting, osteopenia, emphysema, uncoordinated movement, atherosclerosis, and atrophy of the intestinal villi, skin, thymus, and spleen [16436465].
Lack of Fgf23 activities results in extensive premature aging-like features and early mortality of Fgf-23(-/-) mice, while restoring the systemic effects of FGF-23 significantly ameliorates these phenotypes, with the resultant effect being improved growth, restored fertility, and significantly prolonged survival of double mutants [18729070]. | House mouse |
| Fgf21 | Fibroblast growth factor-21 | Overproduction of Fgf-21 increases mean lifespan of males by 30% and that of females by 39% [23066506].
Mice overproducing Fgf21 are lean throughout their lives and remain lean even while eating slightly more than wild-type mice. Fgf21 overproducers tend to be smaller than wild-type mice and female mice were infertile. Although Fgf21 overproducers have significantly lower bone density than wild-type, Fgf21-abundant mice exhibit no ill effects from the reduced bone density and remain active into old age without any broken bones.
Fgf21 seems to provide its health benefits by increasing insulin sensitivity and blocking the growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor-1 signaling.
Fgf21 acts as a hormone, is secreted by the liver during fasting and helps the body to adapt to starvation.
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| Foxm1 | Forkhead box M1 | Deletion of Foxm1 causes age-related deterioration in liver regeneration. Increased hepatocyte expression in 12-month-old (aged) transgenic mice of Foxm1b alone is sufficient to restore hepatocyte proliferation to levels found in 2-month-old (young) regenerating liver [14647066]. | House mouse |
| Fxn | frataxin | Disruption results in reduced lifespan, increased oxidative stress, impaired respiration, and the development of hepatic tumors [16278235]. | House mouse |
| Gpx4 | Glutathione peroxidase 4 | Heterozygous knockouts have a 7% increase in median lifespan. | House mouse |
| Gsta4 | glutathione S-transferase, alpha 4 | Gsta4 null mice, had impaired 4-hydroxynonenal detoxification, but extended average lifespan. | House mouse |
| Gnas | GNAS (guanine nucleotide binding protein, alpha stimulating) complex locus | Mutants in which the Gnasxl transcript is deleted from the Gnas gene, have a high metabolism and are very lean despite consuming more food. The mutant appears to have fewer glial cells in the suprachiasmatic nucleus where the circadian clock is controlled [22253771]. | House mouse |
| Gdf11 | growth differentiation factor 11 | GDF11 is a circulating factor in young mice that declines with age.
Treatment of old mice to restore GDF11 to youthful levels recapitulated the of young-old parabiosis and reverses age-related hypertrophy. | House mouse |
| Gh | Growth hormone | Overexpression of GH is associated wtih markedly reduced lifespan and various indices of premature aging [8100276]. Transgenic mice overexpressing bovine GH1 are bigger than controls and display signs of premature aging such as a shortened lifespan, glomerulosclerosis and glomerulonephritis, increased astrogliosis, and early onset of age-related changes in cognitive function [14583653]. | House mouse |
| Gh | growth hormone 1 | Overexpression of a growth hormone antagonist (a mutated growth hormone that competes with the endogenous one) in mice has no effect on lifespan [12933651]. | House mouse |
| Ghr | Growth hormone receptor | Ghr knockouts (the so called Laron mice) are dwarfs with significantly extended lifespan by 40-50% [12933651]. Ghr-/- mice are significantly longer lived as Ghr+/+ or Ghr+/- mice (by 40-50%) in both females and males [10875265; 19370397]. 30% DR fails to affect overall survival, average or median long-lifespan of Growth hormone receptor knockout (GHRKO) mice and increased maximal lifespan only in females. Insulin sensitivity in GHRKO mutants is greater than in wild-type and is not further increased by DR [16682650]. Intermittent fasting also fails to extend the long lifespan of GHRKO mice [19747233]. Lifespan of mice with a deletion in the Ghr gene live almost 5 years [21123740]. In C57BL/6J this mutation increases life expectancy by 16 to 26% depending on gender [12933651] and in mice of mixed genetic background the increases amounted to 36-55% [9371826]. Serum levels of GH are elevated in mutant mice [9371826] and mutants are smaller than wild-type. IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 levels are also reduced in Ghr mutant mice [10875265]. The age-associated decline in memory retention is delayed in Ghr mutants [11336996]. Overexpression of a growth hormone antagonist (a mutated growth hormone that competes with the endogenous one) has no effect on lifespan [12933651]. | House mouse |
| Ghrhr | Growth hormone releasing hormone receptor | Homozygosity for the Ghrhr(lit) knockout mutation (called little mouse) lowers plasma growth hormone levels, impairs growth and increases lonegevity about 20% [11371619]. Lit homozygous animals are smaller than normal mice [1270792] and their pituitary is defective in growth hormone and prolactin [978118]. | House mouse |
| Hells | helicase, lymphoid specific | A hypomorphic deletion of helicase domains 3, 4 and part of 2, leads to expression of a C-terminal truncated Hells protein causing an extremely short lifespan. with 60% of homozyogous mutants dying after birth and remaining 40% surviving up to seven weeks (around 25 days) [15105378].
Hells disruption results in genomic hypomethylation, de-repression of silenced genes, and premature aging, characterized by decreased proliferation, increased replicative senescence, and altered expression of Bmi-1 and p16INK4a. Hells mutant exhibit significant hypoglycemia, low birth weight and growth retardation, and signs of premature aging such as greying hair and balding, reduced fat deposition, unstable gait, cachexia, and kyphosis [15105378]. | House mouse |
