Advances in three important signaling pathways related to aging in Drosophila melanogaster and screening of anti-aging traditional Chinese medicine / 中国中药杂志

Aging is the most basic life feature of organisms. It is a phenomenon of dysfunction of cells,tissues and organs under the influence of external environment and internal factors during the growth of organisms. During the process,many cellular signaling pathways and biologically active substances,such as insulin/insulin-like growth factor( IGF)-1 signaling( IIS) pathway,apoptotic signaling pathway,mTOR signaling pathway,AMPK pathway,sirtuin pathway,deacetylases have been found to be closely related to the molecular mechanism of aging. Modern studies have indicated that anti-aging natural compounds can cause great side effects,while delaying aging and even inducing another disease,which is against with the purpose of delaying aging and achieving healthy aging. Therefore,the researches of anti-aging traditional Chinese medicines with fewer side effects are extremely important. Based on the different mechanisms and theories of aging,many traditional Chinese medicines have been discovered to be related to anti-aging. As one of the most important model organisms,Drosophila melanogaster has been widely used in studies of aging process in recent years. In this paper,we reviewed three important signaling pathways related to aging,such as insulin/insulin-like growth factor( IGF)-1 signaling( IIS) pathway,m TOR pathway,AMPK pathway,and screened out anti-aging traditional Chinese medicines based on D. melanogaster in recent years.

Relationship between insulin-like growth factor and diabetic lower extremity angiopathy / 西安交通大学学报(医学版)

Objective To analyze the changes of insulin-like growth factor-1(IGF-1) serum level in diabetic lower extremity angiopathy,explore the role of IGF-1 in the pathogenesis of diabetic vascular complications,and provide basis for prevention and treatment of diabetic angiopathy.Methods We selected 74 type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM) patients as case group and 15 normal people as control group.All of the research subjects were measured in height,weight,blood pressure,blood glucose,blood lipid,fast insulin,and urinary albumin excretion rate(UAER).The serum IGF-1 level was measured with ELISA.Arteries of both lower extremities were measured with color Doppler flow image.Results ① The serum IGF-1 level was significantly higher in DM patients than in control group.② The serum IGF-1 level was significantly higher in diabetic patients with lower extremities arterial vasculopathy than diabetic patients without.The results showed a positive correlation between the serum IGF-1 level and severity of lower extremity arterial vasculopathy.③ There was a positive correlation between diabetic duration,UAER,total cholesterol(TC),lower density lipoprotein(LDL) in blood and lower extremity arterial vasculopathy in diabetic patients.Conclusion The serum IGF-1 level can reflect the severity of lower extremity arterial vasculopathy.The serum IGF-1 level may be a reference valuable in diagnosis of diabetic macroangiopathy and a new cure point for diabetic macroangiopathy.