Abstract
While aging has been found to be a multifactorial process, it seems logical that different aging parameters which reflect the deleterious effects of normal basal metabolism should be directly related. Three such putative aging parameters were therefore measured in adult male Fischer 344 rats on three different long-term diets which have been shown to yield different lifespans. It was found that the daily caloric intake per unit organ weight, a measure of whole-body metabolic rate, was directly proportional to: (1) the level of 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine in skin dermal cells, used as a measure of the rate of DNA oxidative damage; (2) the proportion of hemoglobin that was glycated, used as a measure of the rate of glycation. This appears to be the first evidence suggesting that whole-body metabolic rate plays a role in determining both the rate of DNA oxidative damage and the rate of glycation involved in aging, because whole-body metabolic rate was the only one of these three variables manipulated in the study. The study also found that there were no significant between-group differences in brain, kidney and liver 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine, suggesting that DNA oxidative damage in non-mitotic and slow-dividing cells is not a reliable linear biomarker of aging.
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