{"id":11276,"date":"2017-01-18T08:17:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T08:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=11276"},"modified":"2017-01-18T08:17:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T08:17:47","slug":"dgists-research-team-identifies-mechanisms-inflammation-induced-animal-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/dgists-research-team-identifies-mechanisms-inflammation-induced-animal-aging\/","title":{"rendered":"DGIST\u2019s Research Team Identifies Mechanisms of Inflammation-induced Animal Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>South Korea&#8217;s Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) experientially proved &#8216;Inflammation-Induced Aging Hypothesis. It suggests a new direction for research on aging recovery as well as anti-aging.<\/em> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11277\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11277\" style=\"width: 636px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11277\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/4143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"392\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Schematic summary. Under the condition of chronic inflammation, TNF-\u03b1 -expressing M2-like macrophages are accumulated in LP of aging animal intestine. The TNF-\u03b1 upregulates ANG2 expression in microvascular endothelial cells that skews the angiopoetin-TIE-2 signaling in neighboring vascular EC to inflammatory settings by removing supportive structures: microvessel-associated pericytes and adherens junction protein vascular endothelial (VE)-cadherin at the cell-cell junction. Consequently, microvessels in aged mice became leaky for recruitment of immune cells.<br \/>Credit : DGIST<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">DGIST\u2019s research team has experimentally proved the hypothesis that the accumulated chronic inflammation results in the aging of animals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Research team led by the chair professor Sang-Cheol Park has identified the aging mechanisms of animals resulting from intestinal inflammation accumulation through the joint research with professor Hyun E. Choy\u2019s research team of Chonnam National University. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So far, numerous hypotheses explaining animal aging have been published and one of them is inflammation-induced aging which proposes that accumulation of inflammation is the cause of animal aging. While inflammation-induced aging theory has been one of many hypotheses explaining the aging of animals, its substance has not been clearly proven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chair-Professor Sang-Cheol Park\u2019s research team has discovered that the pericytes surrounding the endothelial cells in the intestinal tissues decrease as an animal\u2019s biological age increases and thus the blood vessel function deteriorated, including the progress of vascular leakage. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Through the experiment, this study has shown that this phenomenon is due to the increase of gut-resident inflammatory cells (macrophages) and the increase of TNF-\u03b1, cytokine secreted by these cells, as well as the entailed changes in the surrounding environment of blood vessel. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The team has not only experimentally proved the hypothesis of inflammation-induced aging, but also identified that it could be an important clue to slow the aging process through inflammation control and vascular leakage inhibition in the mice experiment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">DGIST\u2019s Chair-Professor Sang-Cheol Park said, &#8220;This study is significant as we have newly identified the mechanisms of aging associated with inflammation increase and opened possibilities of applied researches on aging delay through inflammation control as well as anti-aging. We will conduct follow-up studies to find ways to extend human health life by controlling inflammatory cells and vascular leakage to delay aging.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This study will open a new chapter in anti-aging, a long standing challenge for mankind. It is expected that the follow-up studies on intestinal inflammation control will make a great contribution to the development of various technologies that can practically delay aging. For these purposes, it is required to explore a variety of candidate substances that are able to control gut-resident inflammation and conduct clinical researches on them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This study has been published online in January 3rd issue of Scientific Reports, the sister journal of the international journal Nature. The study was supported by the DGIST Research and Development Support Program and the Korea Research Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) experientially proved &#8216;Inflammation-Induced Aging Hypothesis. It suggests a new direction for research on aging recovery as well as anti-aging. DGIST\u2019s research team has experimentally proved the hypothesis that the accumulated chronic inflammation results in the aging of animals. 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