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The Endocrine Regulation of Aging by Insulin-like Signals
Marc Tatar,1Andrzej Bartke,2Adam Antebi3
Reduced signaling of insulin-like peptides increases
the life-span of nematodes, flies, and rodents. In the nematode and thefly, secondary hormones downstream of insulin-like signaling appearto
regulate aging. In mammals, the order in which the hormonesact is
unresolved because insulin, insulin-like growth factor-1,growth
hormone, and thyroid hormones are interdependent. In allspecies
examined to date, endocrine manipulations can slow agingwithout
concurrent costs in reproduction, but with inevitableincreases in
stress resistance. Despite the similarities amongmammals and
invertebrates in insulin-like peptides and their signalcascade, more
research is needed to determine whether these signalscontrol aging in
the same way in all the species by the same mechanism.
1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
2 Department of Medicine, Southern Illinois
University, Springfield, IL 62794, USA.
3 Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Genetik,
Ihnestrasse 73, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
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