Telomere Length and Oxidative Stress and Its Relation with Metabolic Syndrome Components in the Aging.
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SUBMITTER: Gavia-Garcia G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8063797 | biostudies-literature |
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Project description:BackgroundRate of reproductive aging may be related to rate of biological aging. Thus, indicators of aging, such as short telomere length, may be more frequent in women with a history suggestive of premature reproductive senescence.MethodsTelomere-specific quantitative PCR was used to assess telomere length in two groups of women with evidence of reproductive aging: (i) patients with idiopathic premature ovarian failure (POF, N = 34) and (ii) women with a history of recurrent miscarriage (RM, N = 95); and two control groups: (1) women from the general population (C1, N = 108) and (2) women who had a healthy pregnancy after 37 years of age (C2, N = 46).ResultsThe RM group had shorter age-adjusted mean telomere length than controls (8.46 versus 8.92 kb in C1 and 9.11 kb in C2, P = 0.0004 and P = 0.02 for C1 and C2, respectively), although short telomeres were not confined to subsets of this group known to have experienced single or multiple trisomic pregnancies. Although sample size is limited, mean telomere length in the POF group was significantly longer than that in C1 (9.58 versus 8.92 kb, P = 0.01).ConclusionsWomen experiencing RM may have shorter telomeres as a consequence of a more rapid rate of aging, or as a reflection of an increased level of cellular stress. Longer telomere length in the POF group may be explained by abnormal hormone exposure, slow cell division rates or autoimmunity in these women. Despite small sample sizes, these results suggest that different manifestations of reproductive aging are likely influenced by distinct physiological factors.
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Project description:ObjectiveHigh oxidative stress potentially leads to accelerated telomere shortening and consequent premature cell senescence, implicated in type 2 diabetes (T2D) development. Therefore, we studied the association of leukocyte telomere length (LTL) with the presence of T2D, as well as the effect on the patients' LTL of plasma oxidative stress and of variation in UCP2, a gene involved in the mitochondrial production of reactive oxygen species.MethodsMean LTL was determined in 569 Caucasian, 103 South Asian and 70 Afro-Caribbean T2D patients aged from 24 to 92 years, 81 healthy Caucasian male students aged from 18 to 28 years and 367 healthy Caucasian men aged from 40 to 61 years by real-time PCR. Plasma total antioxidant status (TAOS) was measured in the T2D patients by a photometric microassay. The patients were also genotyped for the UCP2 functional variants -866G>A and A55V.ResultsAfro-Carribeans had 510bp longer mean length compared to Caucasians (p<0.0001) and 500bp longer than South Asians (p=0.004). T2D subjects displayed shorter age-adjusted LTL compared to controls [6.94(6.8-7.03) vs. 7.72(7.53-7.9), p<0.001] with subjects in the middle and the lowest tertile of LTL having significantly higher odds ratios for T2D compared to those in the highest tertile [1.50(1.08-2.07) and 5.04(3.63-6.99), respectively, p<0.0001]. In the patients, LTL was correlated negatively with age (r=-0.18, p<0.0001) and positively with TAOS measures (r=0.12, p=0.01) after adjusting for age, while carriers of the UCP2 -866A allele had shorter age-adjusted LTL than common homozygotes [6.86(6.76-6.96)kb vs. 7.03(6.91-7.15)kb, p=0.04].ConclusionThe present data suggest that shorter LTL is associated with the presence of T2D and this could be partially attributed to the high oxidative stress in these patients. The association of the UCP2 functional promoter variant with the LTL implies a link between mitochondrial production of reactive oxygen species and shorter telomere length in T2D.
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