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2001 Accepted Abstracts



This list includes invited abstracts, those accepted for oral presentation and those accepted for poster presentation. Those presenting posters, please note that poster boards will be 8 feet wide by 4 feet high.


COMMON MARMOSETS PROVIDE AN ALTERNATIVE TO MACAQUES AS NONHUMAN PRIMATE MODELS OF AGING
D.H. Abbott, R.J. Colman, W. Saltzman, N.J. Schultz-Darken, J.W. Kemnitz, A. Usborne, A. Trainor, I. Bolton, N.V. Dhurandhar, R.L. Atkinson, N. Binkley

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA ABNORMALITIES AND FIBER ATROPHY IN RHESUS MONKEY SKELETAL MUSCLE
Damian Lee, Zhengjin Cao, Marisol Lopez and Judd M. Aiken

BRAIN AGING IN MOUSE LEMURS
John Allman

ENDOCRINE FUNCTION IN LONG LIVING MOUSE MUTANTS: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN
A. Bartke

CALORE RESTRICTION (CR) ALTERS BONE MASS BUT NOT GEOMETRY OR FAILURE PROPERTIES AND STATIC LOADING DOES NOT PROTECT AGAINST BONE LOSS DURING CR.
A. Black, M. Shea, J.A. Mattison, S.A. Shapses, E.M. Tilmont, A. Handy, M. Rios, M.A. Lane

LONGEVITY IN THE RHESUS MONKEY: MULTIPLE AGING PROCESSES, MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY
Noni L. Bodkin

AGE-RELATED RESPONSES OF NEURONAL MITOCHONDRIA TO A-BETA AND GLUTAMATE
Gregory J. Brewer, John R. Torricelli, Nicole Capps

AGING AND ANTI-OXIDANT EXPRESSION IN MICE SELECTIVELY BRED FOR INCREASED VOLUNTARY EXERCISE
A.M. Bronikowski, T. Morgan, T. Garland, Jr., P.A. Carter

THE EFFECTS OF SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS IN BONE
Thomas A. Brown

MITOCHONDRIAL ABNORMALITIES CONCURRENT WITH SARCOPENIA AND OXIDATIVE DAMAGE
E. Bua, J. Cervera, S.H. McKiernan, J. Wanagat, J.M. Aiken

PHARMACOLOGICAL MANIPULATION OF MEMORY PERFORMANCE IN AGED MONKEYS
Jerry J. Buccafusco

HIGH INTENSITY COGNITIVE ACTIVITY IS SELECTIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH MAINTAINED COGNITION
M.C. Carlson PhD, Q. Xue PhD, K. Bandeen-Roche PhD, & L.P. Fried MD

INFLUENCE OF CALORIC RESTRICTION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN NONHUMAN PRIMATES: PROGRESS TO DATE
William T. Cefalu, Janice D. Wagner, Audrey D. Bell-Farrow, Iris J. Edwards, Zhong Q. Wang

LOSS OF LEPTIN SENSITIVITY IN AGING HYPERLEPTINEMIC TRANSGENIC MICE
F. Chehab, J. Qiu, S. Ogus

SKELETAL EFFECTS OF AGING, MENOPAUSE AND DIETARY RESTRICTION IN RHESUS MACAQUES
R.J. Colman

SOCIAL AGING IN FREE-RANGING RHESUS MACAQUES
Judith Corr

EFFECTS OF AGING ON LENS AND CILIARY MUSCLE FUNCTION AND AQUEOUS HUMOR DYNAMICS
M.A. Croft, B. Gabelt, A. Glasser, G.A. Heatley, P.L. Kaufman

C. ELEGANS AS A MODEL FOR HORMETIC LIFE EXTENSION.
J.R. Cypser and T.E. Johnson

AN IN VITRO MODEL OF ENHANCED STRESS RESPONSIVENESS BY CALORIC RESTRICTION: A NOVEL METHOD FOR EVALUATION OF POSSIBLE MECHANISMS AND CANDIDATE CALORIC RESTRICTION MIMETICS.
R. de Cabo, R. M. Anson, M. Rios, S. Furer, M.A. Lane

WHY DON'T GRAVEYARDS FLUORESCE? ANTI-AGING APPLICATIONS OF THE BACTERIAL DEGRADATION OF LYSOSOMAL AGGREGATES
A.D.N.J. de Grey, J.A.C. Archer

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ATTENUATES AGING-RELATED WEIGHT LOSS: A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS
Loretta DiPietro

CR AND NON-METABOLIZABLE GLUCOSE ANALOGS STIMULATE GROWTH FACTOR PRODUCTION IN THE BRAIN
Wenzhen Duan, Jaewon Lee, Zhihong Guo, Mark P. Mattson

CALCINEURIN IS NOT INVOLVED IN MUSCLE MASS MAINTENANCE DURING ATROPHY
M. Knox, E.E. Dupont-Versteegden

A GENETIC SCREEN TO UNCOVER MnSOD MICRO REGION IN DROSOPHILA GENOME
C. Martin, A. Duttaroy

THE EVOLUTION OF LONGEVITY IN PRIMATES
J. Erwin, J. Ely, K. Smith, D. Perl, and P. Hof

STRENGTH TRAINING IN THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF FRAILY IN THE ELDERLY
William J. Evans

Menopausal Hot Flashes: Physiological Mechanisms and Potential of a Primate Model
Robert R. Freedman, Ph.D.

EFFETS OF GINSENG FEEDING ON OXIDANT GENERATION AND ANTIOXIDANT CAPACITY IN YOUNG AND OLD RATS
Y. Fu, L.L. Ji

HUMAN SENESCENCE: PRIMARY CAUSES AND INTERACTIONS FLOW CHART
J.D Furber

GONADAL HORMONES CONTROL BRAIN LEVELS OF ALZHEIMER'S BETA-AMYLOID IN ANIMALS AND PLASMA BETA-AMYLOID LEVELS IN HUMANS
S. Gandy, S. Petanceska, D. Frail, L. Flicker, J. Fonte, O. Almeida, R. Martins

RHESUS MONKEYS MODEL THE AGE-RELATED MOTORIC DECLINES AND EXPRESSION OF PARKINSONIAN FEATURES OF HUMAN SENESCENCE
Don Gash, Anders Andersen, Charles Smith, Zhiming Zhang, Richard Grondin, and Greg Gerhardt

ANTIOXIDANT RICH DIETS REVERSE AGE-RELATED INCREASE IN CYTOKINES IN THE CEREBELLUM
C. Gemma, D.B. Holmes, K. Choo, B. Sepesi, and P.C. Bickford

AN IMMUNE COMPETENT MOUSE TUMOR MODEL TO DEVELOP BREAST CANCER VACCINES FOR ELDERLY.
R. Sypniewska, L. Hoflack, L, C. Gravekamp.

SUSTAINED IMPROVEMENT OF MOTOR FUNCTIONS AND UPREGULATION OF DOPAMINE RELEASE PROCESSES WITH CHRONIC INTRAVENTRICULAR DELIVERY OF GDNF IN AGED MONKEYS.
Grondin R, Cass WA, Zhang Z, Stanford JA, Gerhardt GA, Gash DM

CENTENARIAN SPECIES AND ROCKFISH PROJECT
J.C. Guerin; A.M. Cuervo; G.M. Cailliet; B.V. Zlokovic

CALORIC RESTRICTION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON GLYCOLYSIS
K. Hagopian and R. Weindruch

CALORIE RESTRICTION (CR): ITS EFFECTS ON REPRODUCTIVE INDICES
A.M. Handy, A. Black, E.M. Tilmont D.K. Ingram, G.S. Roth, and M.A. Lane

NATURAL HISTORY OF THE METABOLIC SYNDROME X IN RHESUS MONKEYS
Barbara Caleen Hansen

EFFECTS OF GH AND SEX STEROID REPLACEMENT IN HEALTHY WOMEN AND MEN OVER 65 YEARS OF AGE
S.M. Harman, M.R. Blackman

IS THE CHIMPANZEE A PRACTICAL MODEL OF HUMAN AGING?
J.G. Herndon,* and J. Tigges

NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF COGNITIVE AGING IN THE RHESUS MONKEY
Patrick R. Hof

EFFECT OF EXERCISE OF LONGEVITY: STUDIES ON RATS
John O. Holloszy

OVERVIEW OF THE NIA AGING RHESUS MONKEY PROJECT
Donald K. Ingram, George S. Roth, and Mark A. Lane

EXERCISE AND OXIDATIVE STRESS DURING AGING
Li Li Ji

UNDERSTANDING THE REGULATION OF MOUSE AND HUMAN KLOTHO GENES
Samira Kaissi, Makoto Kuro-o, and Nori Kasahara

DIETARY RESTRICTION AND AGING IN RHESUS MONKEYS: THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PROJECT
J.W. Kemnitz, R.J. Colman, I.J. Edwards, T.A. Gresl, J.J. Ramsey, N.C. Binkley and R. Weindruch

NEUROGENESIS IN THE AGING BRAIN
Gerd Kempermann, M.D.

PEROXIDE-GENERATED APOPTOSIS INDUCTION IN HEPATOCYTES FROM LONG LIVING AMES DWARF MOUSE
M.A. Kennedy, S.G. Rakoczy, H.M. Brown-Borg

PREDICTORS OF VARIATION IN RESPONSE TO INFLUENZA VACCINATION
J.M. Kinnard, C.L. Coe

A CLINICALLY APPLIED DOSE OF (-)DEPRENYL CAN INCREASE ANTIOXIDANT ENZYME ACTIVITIES IN BRAIN AS WELL AS EXTRA-BRAIN TISSUES IN MONKEYS
C. Minami, H. Maeda, T. Yamamoto, S. Satake. and K. Kitani

NEUROCHEMICAL AND NEUROENDOCRINE ALTERATIONS IN THE AGED RHESUS BRAIN: A REVIEW
Steven G. Kohama

EFFECTS OF ESTRADIOL AND RALOXIFENE ON COGNITION IN AGED OVARIECTOMIZED MONKEYS: PRELIMINARY FINDINGS
A. Lacreuse, A.V. Raghavan, A.L. Reid, M.E. Wilson, J.G. Herndon.

GAMMA-SECRETASE MEDIATED-MODULATION OF CALCIUM SIGNALING
F. M. LaFerla and M. A. Leissring

THE ROLE OF ENDOSOMAL COMPARTMENTS IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
J.J. Lah and A.I. Levey

PRIMATE AGING DATABASE (PAD)
Mark A. Lane and Darlene Smucny

CHARACTERIZATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA DELETION MUTATIONS IN RAGGED RED REGIONS OF INDIVIDUAL, AGED RHESUS MONKEY MUSCLE FIBERS
Damian Lee, Zhengjin Cao, Nolan Gokey, Allen Herbst, and Judd M. Aiken.

GLUCOSE SENSING, ENERGY METABOLISM, AND AGING IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE
Stephen S. Lin, Jill K. Manchester, and Jeffrey I. Gordon

SELECTION FOR REDUCED FEEDING IN LARVAE OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER MIMICS THE DIETARY RESTRICTION EFFECT
P. F. FOLEY, L. S. LUCKINBILL

FINDING GENES FOR COMPLEX, AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN NONHUMAN PRIMATES: THE PEDIGREED BABOON MODEL
M.C. Mahaney

3,3-EPIGALLOCATECHIN-3-GALLATE, FROM TEA EXTRACT, ATTENUATES NEURONAL CELL DEATH IN 6-HYDROXYDOPAMINE AND MPTP MODELS OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE: POSSIBLE GENE TARGETS
M.B.H. Youdim, S. Mandel, G. Maor and Y. Levites

A TEST-RETEST RELIABILITY OF 0.99 FOR MEASURING GRADUAL COGNITIVE CHANGE: THE DANBURY MS BLUEBERRY STUDY.
C. Pappas, J.A. Joseph, R. Martin, A. Pruchnicki, B. Sachs, H.R. Herbs, R. Schnoll, A. Wetherell

CALORIE RESTRICTION DOES NOT AFFECT THE AGE-RELATED DECLINE IN OCULAR LENS CLARITY OR ACCOMMODATION IN RHESUS MONKEYS
J.A. Mattison, M.A. Croft, P.L. Kaufman, W. Hubbard, B. Gabelt, J. Kiland, D. Dahl, G.S. Roth, D.K. Ingram, M.A. Lane

BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF CALORIC RESTRICTION MIMETIC DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS: A CELL STRESS-BASED MECHANISM
Mark P. Mattson

EFFECTS OF AGING AND CALORIE RESTRICTION ON NEURAL STEM CELLS
Mark P. Mattson

MUSCULOSKELETAL AGEING IN TRANSGENIC MICE OVEREXPRESSING HSP70
A McArdle, A Vasilaki, W Dillmann, R Mestril, JA Faulkner, MJ Jackson.

CALORIC RESTRICTION EFFECTS ON SARCOPENIA AND ELECTRON TRANSPORT SYSTEM ABNORMALITIES IN RATS ARE MUSCLE SPECIFIC
Jennifer McGorray, Entela Bua, Judd M. Aiken and Susan H. McKiernan

AGE-RELATED DEFICITS IN EXPRESSION OF THE N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE 2B RECEPTOR SUBUNIT CORRELATES WITH BEHAVIORAL IMPAIRMENT IN FISHER 344 RATS.
M.H. Mesches; D.A. Clayton; L Veng; C.A. Rabiner; C. Allgeier; P.C. Bickford; M.D. Browning

THE EFFECT OF DIETARY MICRO AND MACRONUTRIENTS ON AMYLOID PATHOLOGY IN A TRANSGENIC MOUSE MODEL OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
D. Morgan, M.N. Gordon, G. DiCarlo, K Connor, R.A. Good, C.L. Walker and R.W. Engelman

THE AGING RHESUS MONKEY: PATTERNS OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN NORMAL AGING AND CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE
M.B. Moss

TRANSGENIC AND OTHER APPROACHES TO PROBE THE ROLE OF GLUCOCORTICOIDS IN THE ANTI-AGING ACTION OF CALORIE RESTRICTION
James F. Nelson

CALORIC RESTRICTION OF RHESUS MONKEYS LOWERS OXIDATIVE DAMAGE IN SKELETAL MUSCLE
T.D. Oberley, T.A. Zainal, D.B. Allison, L.I. Szweda, R. Weindruch

SUPPLEMENTATION WITH A CONCENTRATED NUTRACEUTICAL FOOD REDUCES DNA DAMAGE, OXIDATIVE MACROMOLECULAR DAMAGE AND IMPROVES LIPID PROFILES
Vincent C. Giampapa, MD, FACS & Gregory F. Sullivan II, Ph.D.

HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY INCREASES TYPE I COLLAGEN IN DERMAL FIBROBLASTS BY STIMULATING TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR-BETA
Neena Philips and Jan Devaney

AGE AND SEX PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN RENAL DISEASE
M.J. Pomeroy, J.L. Robertson

REDUCTION OF ISOPROSTANES AND REGRESSION OF ADVANCED ATHEROSCLEROSIS BY APOLIPOPROTEIN E
D. Pratico, R.K. Tangirala, G.A. FitzGerald, S. Chun, K. Tsukamoto, C. Maugeais, and D.J. Rader.

NEUROPROTECTIVE ABILITIES OF NATURAL EXTRACTS AND PHYTONUTRIENTS IN HIPPOCAMPAL CELLS: POSSIBLE IMPACT IN BRAIN AGING ?
Rémi Quirion & Stéphane Bastianetto

LONG-TERM CALORIC RESTRICTION PREVENTS AGING-RELATED DEGENERATION OF SUBMUCOSAL NEURONS IN MURINE SMALL INTESTINE
R.A. Reddix, D. Meyn, X. Cao and Q. Ma

RESPONSE INDUCED AT THE PLASMA MEMBRANE BY AGE AND CALORIC RESTRICTION
Michelle Rios, R. de Cabo, M. Lane

ACUTE EXERCISE STIMULATES ANTIOXIDANT DEFENSE IN SKELETAL MUSCLE IN AGING-DELAYED AMES DWARF MOUSE
M.A. Romanick, S.G. Rakoczy, H.M. Brown-Borg

THE AGING RHESUS MONKEY: PATTERNS OF NEUROBIOLOGICAL CHANGE IN SUCCESSFUL AND UNSUCCESSFUL AGING
D.L. Rosene, Ph.D.

CALORIC RESTRICTION AND CR MIMETICS: POSSIBLE RELEVANCE TO HUMANS
George S. Roth, Donald K. Ingram, and Mark A. Lane

TESTOSTERONE LEVEL, ANDROGEN RECEPTOR POLYMORPHISM, AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN MIDDLE-AGED MEN
S.N. Seidman, A.B. Araujo, S.P. Roose, J.B. McKinlay

EFFECTS OF AGE AND DIETARY ANTIOXIDANTS ON CEREBRAL ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN ACTIVITY
Edward H. Sharman, Kaizhi G. Sharman and Stephen C. Bondy

ESTROGEN AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN: EVIDENCE FROM CLINICAL STUDIES
Barbara B. Sherwin, Ph.D.

PROS AND CONS OF ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN: WHAT THE CURRENT EVIDENCE MEANS
Jan Shifren, M.D.

THE ANTIOXIDANT AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY EFFECTS OF BLUEBERRIES ON AGE-SENSITIVE TESTS OF BEHAVIOR AND BRAIN FUNCTION
B. Shukitt-Hale and J.A. Joseph

GHRELIN AND THE GHRP ANALOGUES, PHARMACOLOGY, ACTIONS, AND PROMISE FOR HORMONE REPLACEMENT IN THE ELDERLY
Roy G. Smith, Ph.D.

SERUM ALBUMIN AS BIOMARKER OF AGING IN CAPTIVE RHESUS MONKEYS
D.A. Smucny, D.B. Allison, D.K. Ingram, E. Nakamura, J. Herndon, J.W. Kemnitz, G.S. Roth, M.A. Lane

DIFFERENTIAL GENE EXPRESSION IN CULTURED SKELETAL MUSCLE CELLS FOLLOWING OXIDATIVE STRESS
S. SPIERS, F. McARDLE, M. J. JACKSON

IMPROVED TOLERANCE TO HYDROGEN PEROXIDE-INDUCED OXIDATIVE STRESS IN AGED RAT HEARTS
J.W. Starnes and R.P. Taylor

LONGITUDINAL AND CROSS-SECTIONAL MEASUREMENT OF INDICATORS OF CHANGING BODY COMPOSITION: RESULTS COMPARED
William A. Stini, Ph.D.

MOLECULAR MECHANISMS THAT REGULATE STEM CELL DIFFERENTIATION
Yi Sun

STEM CELL THERAPY AND AGING
Clive Niels Svendsen

DEMOGRAPHIC SENESCENCE AND LIFESPAN HERITABILITY IN A CAPTIVE BABOON COLONY
A. Bronikowski, L. Martin, A. Comuzzie, M. Mahaney, C. Packer, K.D. Carey, M. Tatar

EFFECTS OF SHORT-TERM CALORIC RESTRICTION ON BODY COMPOSITION AND GLUCOREGULATION IN MALE AND FEMALE RHESUS MONKEYS (MACACA MULATTA).
E.M. Tilmont, A.M. Handy, A. Black, H. De Angelis, D.K. Ingram, G.S. Roth, and M.A. Lane

ANORECTIC TREATMENT COULD MIMIC EFFECTS OF CALORIC RESTRICTION
V. Anisimov, D. Ingram, G. Roth, M. Lane, S. Ukraintseva

ANDROGENS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON BONE AND BODY COMPOSITION: LESSONS FROM AN AGED MALE RAT MODEL
Dirk Vanderschueren, Liesbeth Vandenput, Eric Van Herck, Johannes Swinnen, Steven Boonen and Roger Bouillon

KNOCKOUT AND TRANSGENIC MOUSE MODELS TO DEFINE THE ROLE OF OXIDATIVE STRESS IN AGING
H. Van Remmen, J. Vijg, X. Chen, J. Mele, M. Hamilton and A. Richardson

STEM CELLS AND AGING: A GENETIC APPROACH
Gary Van Zant, PhD

ATTENUATION OF ADAPTATION IN SKELETAL MUSCLE OF AGED MICE FOLLOWING EXERCISE
A. Vasilaki, L. Iwanejko, MJ Jackson, A. McArdle

THE CYNOMOLGUS MONKEY AS A MODEL OF AGING
Mary Lou Voytko

DNA MICROARRAYS AS A SCREENING TOOL FOR CALORIC RESTRICTION MIMETIC INTERVENTIONS
R. Weindruch and T.A. Prolla

CAPTIVE SQUIRREL MONKEY DEMOGRAPHICS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR AGING RESEARCH
Lawrence Williams

MECHANISMS OF AGING IN LENS CELLS, RELATION TO CATARACT
Norman Wolf, William Pendergrass, Narendra Singh, Philip Penn, and Yi Li.

THE CHANGE OF HUMAN SURVIVAL PATTERN DURING THE LAST CENTURY REQUIRES REVISION OF TRADITIONAL GERONTOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
A.I.Yashin, S.V. Ukraintseva, A.S. Begun, S.I. Boiko, J.W. Vaupel

PHARMACOLOGICAL MRI MAPPING OF AGE-ASSOCIATED CHANGES IN BASAL GANGLIA CIRCUITRY OF AWAKE RHESUS MONKEYS
Zhiming Zhang, Anders Andersen, Richard Grondin, Tracy Barber, Robin Avison, Greg Gerhardt and Don Gash



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