PMID- 15044709 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20040519 LR - 20231105 IS - 0027-8424 (Print) IS - 1091-6490 (Electronic) IS - 0027-8424 (Linking) VI - 101 IP - 15 DP - 2004 Apr 13 TI - Temporal linkage between the phenotypic and genomic responses to caloric restriction. PG - 5524-9 AB - Caloric restriction (CR), the consumption of fewer calories while avoiding malnutrition, decelerates the rate of aging and the development of age-related diseases. CR has been viewed as less effective in older animals and as acting incrementally to slow or prevent age-related changes in gene expression. Here we demonstrate that CR initiated in 19-month-old mice begins within 2 months to increase the mean time to death by 42% and increase mean and maximum lifespans by 4.7 (P = 0.000017) and 6.0 months (P = 0.000056), respectively. The rate of age-associated mortality was decreased 3.1-fold. Between the first and second breakpoints in the CR survival curve (between 21 and 31 months of age), tumors as a cause of death decreased from 80% to 67% (P = 0.012). Genome-wide microarray analysis of hepatic RNA from old control mice switched to CR for 2, 4, and 8 weeks showed a rapid and progressive shift toward the gene expression profile produced by long-term CR. This shift took place in the time frame required to induce the health and longevity effects of CR. Shifting from long-term CR to a control diet, which returns animals to the control rate of aging, reversed 90% of the gene expression effects of long-term CR within 8 weeks. These results suggest a cause-and-effect relationship between the rate of aging and the CR-associated gene expression biomarkers. Therefore, therapeutics mimicking the gene-expression biomarkers of CR may reproduce its physiological effects. FAU - Dhahbi, Joseph M AU - Dhahbi JM AD - BioMarker Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated, 900 East Hamilton Avenue, Campbell, CA 95008, USA. FAU - Kim, Hyon-Jeen AU - Kim HJ FAU - Mote, Patricia L AU - Mote PL FAU - Beaver, Robert J AU - Beaver RJ FAU - Spindler, Stephen R AU - Spindler SR LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20040325 PL - United States TA - Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A JT - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America JID - 7505876 SB - IM MH - Age Factors MH - Animals MH - *Caloric Restriction MH - Gene Expression MH - Gene Expression Profiling MH - Genotype MH - Longevity/*genetics MH - Male MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred Strains MH - Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis MH - Phenotype MH - Survival Analysis MH - Time Factors PMC - PMC397416 EDAT- 2004/03/27 05:00 MHDA- 2004/05/20 05:00 PMCR- 2004/10/13 CRDT- 2004/03/27 05:00 PHST- 2004/03/27 05:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2004/05/20 05:00 [medline] PHST- 2004/03/27 05:00 [entrez] PHST- 2004/10/13 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 0305300101 [pii] AID - 1015524 [pii] AID - 10.1073/pnas.0305300101 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Apr 13;101(15):5524-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0305300101. Epub 2004 Mar 25.