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Status: Supported ×Keyword: fat mass ×Clear all

2 claims from 2 papers

1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms

   Canagliflozin extends life span in genetically heterogeneous male but not female mice

   Miller, Harrison, Allison et al. · JCI Insight · 2020

   Genetically diverse mice given canagliflozin from 7 months of age lived longer if male but not if female, and the authors link the benefit in males to lower peak blood glucose.

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   1. Supported · 71%In genetically diverse male mice, the diabetes drug canagliflozin raised median survival by 14% and the age at 90th percentile survival by 9%.“Cana extended median survival of male mice by 14%. Cana also increased by 9% the age for 90th percentile survival, with parallel effects seen at each of 3 test sites.”

2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms

   Fat maintenance is a predictor of the murine lifespan response to dietary restriction

   Liao, Rikke, Johnson, Gelfond, Diaz and Nelson · Aging Cell · 2011

   Using 41 recombinant inbred mouse strains, the study found that lifespan response to dietary restriction was linked to maintaining fat rather than losing it, and found no shared genetic loci for fat and lifespan.

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   1. Supported · 71%Across mouse strains, those losing less fat under dietary restriction tended to gain more life extension, at midlife and later ages.“Across strains, DR life extension correlated inversely with fat reduction, measured at midlife (males, r= -0.41, P<0.05, n=38 strains; females, r= -0.63, P<0.001, n=33 strains) and later ages.”