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López Torres, Mónica

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Mónica
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López Torres
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/74335
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Ciencias Biológicas
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Genética, Fisiología y Microbiología
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Fisiología
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    Independent and additive effects of atenolol and methionine restriction on lowering rat heart mitochondria oxidative stress
    (Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes, 2014) Sánchez-Román Rojas, Inés; Gómez, Alexia; Naudí, Alba; Jové, Mariona; Gómez, Jose; López Torres, Mónica; Pamplona, Reinald; Barja De Quiroga Losada, Gustavo
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    Effects of aging and methionine restriction applied at old age on ROS generation and oxidative damage in rat liver mitochondria
    (Biogerontology, 2012) Sánchez-Román Rojas, Inés; Gómez, Alexia; Pérez, Irene; Sánchez, Carlota; Suárez, Henar; Naudí, Alba; Jové, Mariona; López Torres, Mónica; Pamplona, Reinald; Barja De Quiroga Losada, Gustavo
    It is known that a global decrease in food ingestion (dietary restriction, DR) lowers mitochondrial ROS generation (mitROS) and oxidative stress in young immature rats. This seems to be caused by the decreased methionine ingestion of DR animals. This is interesting since isocaloric methionine restriction in the diet (MetR) also increases, like DR, rodent maximum longevity. However, it is not known if old rats maintain the capacity to lower mitROS generation and oxidative stress in response to MetR similarly to young immature animals, and whether MetR implemented at old age can reverse aging-related variations in oxidative stress. In this investigation the effects of aging and 7 weeks of MetR were investigated in liver mitochondria of Wistar rats. MetR implemented at old age decreased mitROS generation, percent free radical leak at the respiratory chain and mtDNA oxidative damage without changing oxygen consumption. Protein oxidation, lipoxidation and glycoxidation increased with age, and MetR in old rats partially or totally reversed these age-related increases. Aging increased the amount of SIRT1, and MetR decreased SIRT1 and TFAM and increased complex IV. No changes were observed in the protein amounts of PGC1, Nrf2, MnSOD, AIF, complexes I, II and III, and in the extent of genomic DNA methylation. In conclusion, treating old rats with isocaloric shortterm MetR lowers mitROS production and free radical leak and oxidative damage to mtDNA, and reverses aging-related increases in protein modification. Aged rats maintain the capacity to lower mitochondrial ROS generation and oxidative stress in response to a shortterm exposure to restriction of a single dietary substance: methionine
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    Reduction in mitochondrialmembrane peroxidizability index and protein lipoxidation levels in therat heart after ß-adrenergic receptor signaling interruption with the ß-blocker atenolol
    (Anales de la Real Academia Nacional de Farmacia, 2013) Gomez, Alexia; Sánchez-Román Rojas, Inés; Gomez, Jose; Naudí, Alba; Pushparaj, Charumati; Portero-Otín, Manuel; López Torres, Mónica; Pamplona, Reinald; Barja De Quiroga Losada, Gustavo
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    Lifelong treatment with atenolol decreases membrane fatty acid unsaturation and oxidative stress in heart and skeletal muscle mitochondria and improves immunity and behavior, without changing mice longevity
    (Aging Cell, 2014) Gómez, Alexia; Sánchez-Román Rojas, Inés; Gomez, Jose; Cruces, Julia; Mate, Ianire; López Torres, Mónica; Naudi, Alba; Portero-Otín, Manuel; Pamplona, Reinald; Fuente Del Rey, María Mónica De La; Barja De Quiroga Losada, Gustavo
    The membrane fatty acid unsaturation hypothesis of aging and longevity is experimentally tested for the first time in mammals. Lifelong treatment of mice with the β1-blocker atenolol increased the amount of the extracellular-signal-regulated kinase signaling protein and successfully decreased one of the two traits appropriately correlating with animal longevity, the membrane fatty acid unsaturation degree of cardiac and skeletal muscle mitochondria, changing their lipid profile toward that present in much more longer-lived mammals. This was mainly due to decreases in 22:6n-3 and increases in 18:1n-9 fatty acids. The atenolol treatment also lowered visceral adiposity (by 24%), decreased mitochondrial protein oxidative, glycoxidative, and lipoxidative damage in both organs, and lowered oxidative damage in heart mitochondrial DNA. Atenolol also improved various immune (chemotaxis and natural killer activities) and behavioral functions (equilibrium, motor coordination, and muscular vigor). It also totally or partially prevented the aging-related detrimental changes observed in mitochondrial membrane unsaturation, protein oxidative modifications, and immune and behavioral functions, without changing longevity. The controls reached 3.93 years of age, a substantially higher maximum longevity than the best previously described for this strain (3.0 years). Side effects of the drug could have masked a likely lowering of the endogenous aging rate induced by the decrease in membrane fatty acid unsaturation. We conclude that it is atenolol that failed to increase longevity, and likely not the decrease in membrane unsaturation induced by the drug.