A new model system for assessing the socio-environmental determinants of the pace of aging: leveraging a long-term study of wild capuchins

评估衰老速度的社会环境决定因素的新模型系统：利用对野生卷尾猴的长期研究

• 批准号: 10513070
• 负责人: Fernando Alonso Campos
• 金额: $ 30.97万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10513070
• 关键词: Address; Adrenal Glands; Adult; Age; Aging; Americas; Animal Model; Assessment tool; Back; Behavior assessment; Behavioral; Biological; Biological Aging; Biological Markers; Biological Models; Birth; Brain; Capuchin Monkey; Chronology; Complex; Costa Rica; Data; Data Collection; Data Set; Development; Diet Habits; Dimensions; Droughts; Elderly; Environmental Risk Factor; Epigenetic Process; Female; Fruit; Gait speed; Generations; Geriatric Assessment; Health; Heterogeneity; Human; In Situ; Individual; Individual Differences; Inflammation; Knowledge; Laboratories; Life; Life Cycle Stages; Life Expectancy; Life Experience; Life Style; Light; Link; Literature; Longevity; Longitudinal Studies; Longitudinal prospective study; Measures; Methods; Mission; Modeling; Molecular; Monitor; Onset of illness; Outcome; Pattern; Personal Satisfaction; Phase; Phenotype; Physical Function; Physical environment; Physiological; Population; Positioning Attribute; Primates; Process; Proteome; Public Health; Rain; Research; Sampling; Sex Differences; Social Behavior; Social Environment; Source; Statistical Models; Techniques; Temperature; Testing; United States National Institutes of Health; Variant; Wild Animals; age related; analog; base; behavior measurement; behavior observation; body system; experience; field study; genetic pedigree; gut microbiome; health assessment; health care availability; health disparity; healthspan; human old age (65+); immune function; individual variation; innovation; insight; intergenerational; life history; male; member; molecular domain; nonhuman primate; novel; physical conditioning; population based; social; social adversity; social group; social relationships; socioenvironmental factor; trait; translational study

PROJECT SUMMARY One of the most enduring questions in public health is why some individuals retain good health into old age while others experience declines in health, physical function, and wellbeing. Growing evidence indicates that socio-environmental factors can contribute to individual differences in the progression of ‘biological aging’, yet we lack a clear understanding of how they influence different body systems. Although these questions have been difficult to address in humans, wild populations of primates offer unique opportunities for progress. This project’s overarching objective is to generate new insights into how social and physical environments influence heterogeneity in rates of aging and health disparities. We will accomplish this by developing a new model system for the study of biological aging, using a combination of field-based behavioral observation and laboratory analyses of noninvasive biological samples from wild white-faced capuchins. Our long-term longitudinal study of this species allows us to leverage almost 40 years of granular data on life-histories, pedigrees, and social behavior, as well as a rich assortment of associated data on the physical environment. The traits that capuchins share with humans, including complex social relationships, omnivory, large brains, and extended longevity, make them well-situated to provide insights into aging and health in our own species. Our first Aim for the Development Phase is to identify, validate, and characterize biomarkers of aging and health in physiological and molecular domains from non-invasive biological samples in a cross-section of adult capuchins of known ages (6-27 years). We have been at the forefront of developing cutting-edge techniques for noninvasive biological sampling, through which we will expand the set of wild animal models in which biological aging can be studied. Second, we will develop new behavioral assessments of physical function that are analogs of common geriatric assessments, and quantify aspects of social adversity parallel to those linked to poor health, reduced survival, or accelerated biological aging in humans. In the Implementation Phase, our Aim is to test the contributions of social and physical environments to trajectories of health and aging across the life course, including sex differences in these relationships. To accomplish this, we will analyze longitudinal variation in the biomarkers and health assessments that we establish during the Development Phase, in combination with our long-term contextual data. By the study’s conclusion, we will have established an innovative wild animal model of health and aging, with newly developed biomarkers to track aging processes in an exceptional breadth of different body systems and extended phenotypes. By integrating these new measures with our outstanding long-term data, we will shed new light on potential mechanisms that explain individual differences in the progression of aging, and in doing so, take an important step toward understanding how to extend the years of active, healthy life in humans.

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