Caenorhabditis Intervention Testing Program (CITP) at the University of Oregon

俄勒冈大学秀丽隐杆线虫干预测试计划 (CITP)

• 批准号: 9321557
• 负责人: Patrick C. Phillips
• 金额: $ 54.98万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-15 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9321557
• 关键词: Adult; Aging; Aging-Related Process; Animal Model; Attention; Biological; Biological Assay; Biological Models; Caenorhabditis; Caenorhabditis elegans; Cancer Etiology; Caregivers; Characteristics; Chemicals; Clinical; Collection; Data; Databases; Deterioration; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Disease; Disease susceptibility; Drug Kinetics; Elderly; Food; Future; Gene Expression; Genes; Genetic; Genetic Heterogeneity; Genetic Variation; Goals; Gold; Health; Healthcare; Human; Impaired cognition; Individual; Intervention; Laboratories; Lead; Life; Link; Longevity; Manuals; Measures; Medical Research; Medicine; Molecular; Mus; Mutation; Nematoda; Neurodegenerative Disorders; Oregon; Organism; Outcome; Pathway interactions; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Pharmacology; Phase; Population; Population Heterogeneity; Process; Quality of life; Reporter; Reproducibility; Resistance; Resources; Risk Factors; Societies; Source; Standardization; Structure; Testing; Tissues; Toxicity Tests; Universities; Variant; Work; aging population; base; body system; efficacy testing; experimental study; genetic makeup; genetic strain; healthy aging; improved; insight; intervention effect; novel; pre-clinical; programs; response; statistics; therapy development; web site

Project Summary Health challenges linked to human aging take a tremendous toll on our society. Physical and cognitive decline limit the quality of life for the elderly and their caregivers. Aging is the major risk factor for, and possible cause of cancer, diabetes, and neurodegenerative disease, and thus struggle with debilitating disease is a common health burden for the aging population. Without question, the promotion of healthy aging with extended resistance to decline should be a major objective of current medical research. To investigate healthy aging, simple animals models such as the nematode C. elegans have been studied, providing molecular insights into the genes and chemical compound interventions that can modulate conserved aging processes likely to act similarly in humans. The goal of the proposed work is to continue, and expand, efforts of a co-operative scientific group involving three closely interacting laboratories who coordinately test pharmacological interventions for the ability to extend healthy aging and promote longevity in nematodes. A specific emphasis of this integrated super-group is to test promising drugs on a collection of natural variants of the Caenorhabditis genus, which together represent the extensive genetic heterogeneity in the human population. The idea is that treatments that confer positive outcomes across a diverse population will have an increased chance of being efficacious in higher organisms and will be suggested as priority interventions for testing in pre-clinical mouse studies and possibly future human trials. The emphasis of this proposal is to evaluate the diversity panel that the CITP has previously established to investigate sources of within and between strain variation, including possible food by compound interactions, and to use a panel of gene expression markers to identify genetic pathways that serve as targets of action for compounds identified during the testing phase of the project. Overall, we will participate in a unique team project that has the power to define pharmacological interventions that robustly promote strong healthspan across a varied population, with implications for development of therapies that promote healthy human aging.

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