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MECHANISMS OF AGEING AND DEVELOPMENT
Volume 128, Issue 10, Pages 539-545Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2007.07.005
Keywords
caloric restriction; metabolic rate; aging; life span; energy balance; obesity; inbred mice; C57BL/6; DBA/2
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- NIA NIH HHS [R01 AG13563, R01 AG013563, R01 AG013563-13] Funding Source: Medline
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The hypothesis, that a decrease in metabolic rate mediates the life span prolonging effect of caloric restriction (CR), was tested using two strains of mice, one of which, C57BL/6, exhibits life span extension as a result of CR, while the other, DBA/2, shows little or no effect. Comparisons of the rate of resting oxygen consumption, and body temperature were made between the strains after they were fed ad libitum (AL) or maintained under 40% CR, from 4 to 16 months of age. Ad libitum-fed mice of the two strains weighed the same when young and consumed similar amounts of food throughout the experiment,, however, the C5713L/6 mice weighed 25% more than DBA/2 mice at 15 months of age. The rate of oxygen consumption was normalized as per gram body weight, lean body mass or organ weight as well as per animal. The body temperature and the rate of oxygen consumption, expressed according to all of the four criteria, were decreased in the DBA/2 mice following CR. The C57BL/6 mice also showed a CR-related de crease in body temperature and in the rate of oxygen consumption per animal and when normalized according to lean body mass or organ weight. The results of this study indicate that CR indeed lowers the rate of metabolism; however, this effect by CR does not necessarily entail the prolongation of the life span of mice. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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