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JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
Volume 74, Issue 8, Pages 1149-1157Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/gly219
Keywords
Frailty index; MCP-1; MIP-1 alpha; IL-1 alpha; IL-10
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [MOP 126018, MOP 97973]
- Department of Pharmacology
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Studies on interventions that can delay or treat frailty in humans are limited. There is evidence of beneficial effects of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors on aspects related to frailty, such as physical function, even in those without cardiovascular disease. This study aimed to longitudinally investigate the effect of an ACE inhibitor on frailty in aging male and female mice. Frailty was assessed with a clinical frailty index (FI) which quantifies health-related deficits in middle-aged (9-13 months) and older (16-25 months) mice. Chronic treatment with enalapril (30 mg/kg/day in feed) attenuated frailty in middle-aged and older female mice, and older male mice, without a long-term effect on blood pressure. Enalapril treatment resulted in a reduction in the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1 alpha, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 and macrophage inflammatory protein-1a in older female mice, and an increase in the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 in older male mice compared with control animals. These sex-specific effects on inflammation may contribute to the protective effects of enalapril against frailty. This is the first study to examine the longitudinal effect of an intervention on the FI in mice, and provides preclinical evidence that enalapril may delay the onset of frailty, even when started later in life.
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