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2002 Accepted Abstracts



This list includes invited abstracts, those accepted for oral presentation and those
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MITOCHONDRIAL DNA DELETION MUTATIONS AND SARCOPENIA
Judd Aiken

AGE-RELATED LOSS OF FACILITATING CORTICOSTRIATAL SYNAPSES MAY BE RELATED TO AN INTERACTION BETWEEN STRIATAL DOPAMINE AND REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES
G. Akopain, C. Crawford, L. Yang L., M.F. Beal, Walsh J.P.

Differential Responses to Oxidative Stress in the Brain of Normal Aged Humans Versus Alzheimer's Disease
A.C. Andorn, P.C. Bickford, D. Hogan

Planarians As Animal Models For Comparative Biogerontology: A Prospectus
R.M. Anson

The Protective Effects of Dietary Restriction Can be Dissociated From Calorie Intake
R. Michael Anson, Zhihong Guo, Rafael de Cabo, Titilola Iyun, Michelle Rios, Adrienne Hagepanos, Donald K. Ingram, Mark P. Mattson, Mark A. Lane

SCOPOLAMINE IMPAIRS VISUO-SPATIAL WORKING MEMORY IN AN AGE-DEPENDENT MANNER.
J.A. Araujo, A.D.F. Chan, C. Mascella, N.W. Milgram

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN AND ACTIVATION OF MICROGLIA
S.W. Barger, S-Z. Wu, A.M. Bodles, A.S. Basile

THE AGING HIPPOCAMPUS, MOLECULES, MAPS, AND MEMORY IN RATS AND NON-HUMAN PRIMATES
C.A. Barnes

QUANTITATIVE LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA DELETION MUTATIONS IN ELECTRON TRANSPORT SYSTEM ABNORMAL REGIONS
M. Bassiouni, A. Herbst, J.M. Aiken

Teaching an Old Rat New Tricks: Cerebellar Motor Learning
Paula C. Bickford

MITOCHONDRIAL ROLE IN AGE-RELATED RESPONSES OF NEURONS TO A-BETA AND GLUTAMATE
Gregory J. Brewer, John R. Torricelli, Nicole Capps, Jason Nash

Unifying Mechanism of Estrogen-Induced Neuroprotection
Roberta Diaz Brinton and Jon Nilsen

PROGRESSION OF SARCOPENIA AND ASSOCIATED ELECTRON TRANSPORT SYSTEM ABNORMALITIES
E. A. Bua, S. H. McKiernan, M. Speleos and J. M. Aiken

PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE IN AGED RATS PREDICTS LONGEVITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR ASSESSING PRECLINICAL INTERVENTIONS
C.S. Carter, G. Onder, W.E. Sonntag, M. Pahor

MODULATION OF HIPPOCAMPAL NEUROGENESIS BY BLUEBERRY DIETARY SUPPLEMENTATION
Gemma Casadesus, Barbara Shukitt-Hale, Heather M. Stellwagen, and James A. Joseph

Effects of Growth Hormone Resistance on Gene Expression: Studies in GHR-KO (Laron Dwarf) mice
K Cochran, M J Iqbal, B Bailey, and A Bartke

Plasma Membrane Redox System During Aging and Caloric Restriction
R de Cabo, C Gilman, M Garcia, G Lopez, M Mattson, M Anson, P Navas and Mark A. Lane

Development of Model Systems to Assess the Role of Estrogens in Neuroprotection
Darlene C. Deecher and Istvan Merchenthaler

A natural model of population heterogeneity fits observed mortality distributions, including their tail
A.D.N.J. de Grey

Mechanisms of Associative Learning in Young and Aging Hippocampus
John F. Disterhoft

LINK BETWEEN AGING CLOCK AND MORTALITY RATE: RELIABILITY APPROACH
S. Doubal, P. Klemera

GENOTYPE AND AGE INFLUENCE THE EFFECT OF CALORIC RESTRICTION ON MORTALITY
M.J. FORSTER, N. SUMIEN, P. MORRIS, R.S. SOHAL

Flow Chart of Biochemical Interactions Causing Human Aging
J.D. Furber

EAT LESS OR EAT BLUEBERRIES: RESTORING HSP70 NEUROPROTECTION IN THE
R.L. Galli, D. Bielinski, A. Szprengiel, B.Shukitt-Hale, J.A. Joseph

Exercise, Learning and the Aging Brain
W. T. Greenough, J. Churchill, R. Galvez

DELAYING BRAIN MITOCHONDRIAL DECAY WITH MITOCHONDRIAL ANTIOXIDANTS/METABOLITES, ACETYL-L-CARNITINE AND R-a-LIPOIC ACID IN OLD RATS
J Liu, E. Head, A Gharib, C. W. Cotman, and B. N. Ames,

Characterization of long-lived wild-derived house mice (Mus musculus)
J.M. Harper, R.A. Miller

CAN AN OLD BIRD BE TAUGHT NEW TRICKS? TELOMERE LENGTH INCREASES WITH AGE IN A LONG-LIVED BIRD.
M.F. Haussmann, D.W. Winkler, K.M. O'Reilly, C.M. Vleck

Assessment of learning in rhesus monkeys on long-term calorie restriction
D. Ingram, J. Young, E. Hanson, M. Murray, G. Roth, M. Lane

Free radical-dependent bcl-2/NFkB interactions in the aged CNS
J. Kaufman, M. Thomas. C. Massaad, P. Bickford, G. Taglialatela

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING OF AGING AND CALORIC RESTRICTION ON THE
Tsuyoshi Kayo, Tomas A Prolla and Richard Weindruch

Peroxide Treatment Induces Upregulated Apoptosis in the Ames Dwarf Mouse
M.A. Kennedy, S.G. Rakoczy, H.M. Brown-Borg

Preservation of cognitive and motor function in middle-aged animals: Implications for the role of growth hormone in aging
B.A. Kinney, N.E. Kinney, K.T. Coschigano, J.J. Kopchick, R.W. Steger, A. Bartke

TETRAHYDROCURCUMIN PROLONGS SURVIVAL CURVES OF MALE C57BL MICE
K.Kitani, T. Osawa

Cell-by-Cell analysis of mtDNA Mutations and the Mitochondrial Theory of Aging
Y. Kraytsberg, E. Nekhaeva, N. B. Bodyak and K. Khrapko

EFFECT OF AGE AND ESTRADIOL ON FINE MOTOR SKILLS IN FEMALE RHESUS MONKEYS
A. Lacreuse, J.G. Herndon

INFLAMMATORY MECHANISMS IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: MICROGLIAL SIGNALING AND TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION
G. Landreth, C. Combs, C. Karlo and S. Sundararajan

MITOCHONDRIAL METABOLITES, ACETYL-L-CARNITINE AND LIPOIC ACID, IMPROVE AGE-ASSOCIATED MEMORY DECLINE AND INHIBIT BRAIN OXIDATIVE DAMAGE IN OLD RATS
J. Liu, A. Gharib, E. Head, C. W. Cotman, and B. N. Ames

IMPAIRMENT IN SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY IN THE RAT HIPPOCAMPUS CAN BE REVERSED BY DIETARY MANIPULATION: A ROLE FOR INTERLEUKIN-1
MA Lynch

REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN NMDA RECEPTOR EXPRESSION WITHIN THE PREFRONTAL CORTEX AND HIPPOCAMPUS
K.R. Magnusson, L. Bai, D. Kresge, and J. Supon

ULTRASTRUCTURAL CHANGES IN SKELETAL MUSCLE OF POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN FOLLOWING TWELVE MONTHS OF AEROBIC EXERCISE AND PROGRESSIVE RESISTANCE TRAINING
Cosmas, A.C., Monteiro, M., Levesque, S., Fiataroni-Singh, M., Manfredi, T.G.

MEASURING RESPONSE TIME WITH AN ERROR OF 1% OR LESS AND RELIABILITY OF 0.96:
R. Martin, R. Coppings, K.E. Gerstmann, W. Holmes, A. Kokesh, D. Mathew, C. Pappas, A. Pruchnicki, B. Sachs, R. Schnoll, A. Wetherell

THE CHINESE-AMERICAN LONGEVITY STUDY
R. Martin, R. Schnoll, A. Pruchnicki, R. Rambadt

The influence of sodium intake on cardiovascular endpoints in rhesus monkeys
J.A. Mattison, H. Spurgeon, P. Pullen, E.G. Lakatta, D.K. Ingram, G.R. Roth, M.A. Lane

Does Caloric Restriction Affect Electron Transport System Abnormalities?
S. H. McKiernan, E. A. Bua and J. M. Aiken

Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress and Therapeutics
S.L. Melov

NSAIDS-INDUCED REVERSAL OF AGE-RELATED DEFICITS IN LEARNING AND MEMORY: POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT OF PRO-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES
M.H. Mesches, C. Gemma, L.M. Veng, C. Allgeiers, M.D. Browning, and P.C. Bickford

PRESERVATION OF COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN AGED CANINES: COLLABORATIVE EFFECTS OF AN ANTIOXIDANT ENRICHED DIET AND COGNITIVE EXPERIENCE
Milgram NW, Head EH, Zicker S, Muggenberg B, Cotman, CW

INFLAMMATORY MECHANISMS IN BRAIN AGING. POSSIBLE SITES FOR INTERVENTION
D. Morgan

CR may be able to improve maintenance of naive T-cells in old Rhesus Macaques
Janko Nikolich-Zugich

Brain gene expression is modified by Gingko biloba extract EGb 761 and in a-tocopherol deficient mice
Kishorchandra Gohil and Lester Packer

POINT MUTATIONS IN RAT MUSCLE AND HEART mtDNA
J. W. Pak, F. Vang, and J. M. Aiken

Inhibition of Expressions of Matrix Metalloproteinase-1 and Growth Factors in Mammary and Endometrial Cells by Estrogen, Progesterone or/and Prolactin
Neena Philips, Karyn McFadden, Jennifer Stellatella, Jennifer Monteleone and Courtney Hurley

GENERATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL HSP70 TRANSGENIC MICE
Radhika Puttagunta and Tomas Prolla

SKELETAL MUSCLE ANTIOXIDANT DEFENSE AND OXIDATIVE STRESS IN EXERCISE-TRAINED AGING-DELAYED AMES DWARF MICE
M.A. Romanick, S.G. Rakoczy, H.M. Brown-Borg

Age-related changes in cognition and the brain of the Rhesus monkey: evidence for inflammatory processes in white matter
M.A. Romanick, S.G. Rakoczy, H.M. Brown-Borg

GLYCOLYSIS AND GLUCOREGULATION AS TARGETS FOR CALORIE RESTRICTION MIMETICS
G.S. Roth, M.A. Lane, J.A. Mattison, D.K.Ingram

AGE-RELATED WORKING MEMORY DEFICITS DETECTED IN MICE PERFORMING WATER MAZE TASKS
B. Scruggs, J. Aniya, K.C. Wright, and K.R. Magnusson

EFFECTS OF MELATONIN AND ACETYL L-CARNITINE ON BIOCHEMICAL AND BEHAVIORAL PARAMETERS OF BRAIN AGING
E. H. Sharman, N. D. Vaziri, Z. Ni, K. G. Sharman, S. C. Bondy

Structure-Neuroprotective Activity Relationships Among Estrogens and Related Molecules
J.W. Simpkins, S.H. Yang, R. Liu, Y. Wen, D.G. Watson, E.J. Perez, T. Fan, and A.L. Day

SIGNALING OXIDATIVE STRESS IN ALZHEIMER DISEASE
Xiongwei Zhu, Osamu Ogawa, Craig S. Atwood, George Perry, Mark A. Smith

Role of Mitochondria in the aging process
R.S. Sohal

ESTROGEN EFFECTS ON SEPTAL CHOLINERGIC NEURONS IN CULTURE
J. Stoll, C. Martin, C. Hoelting

Effects of Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha on the Expression of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase in Nerve Growth Factor-Responsive Pheochromocytoma Cells
M.S. Thomas, W.R. Zhang, A.C. Andorn, G. Taglialatela

Altered methionine metabolism in long living Ames dwarf mice
E.O. Uthus and H.M. Brown-Borg

Genotoxicity of Electron Transport Inhibitors: Models of Neurodegenerative Diseases.
B. Van Houten, B.Mandavilli, J.Santos, L. Hunakova and Y. Chen.

ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS WITH AGE IN WILDTYPE AND MNSOD KNOCKOUT MICE
H. Van Remmen, J. Chang, T. Shibatani, W. Ward, J. E. Cornell and A. Richardson

AGE-RELATED INCREASE IN L-TYPE CALCIUM CHANNEL PROTEIN IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS CORELATES WITH SPATIAL WORKING MEMORY IMPAIRMENT
L. M. Veng, M.H. Mesches, M.D. Browning

PARALLELS IN COGNITIVE FUNCTION OF AGED MONKEYS AND HUMANS
M.L. Voytko

THE INFLUENCE OF AGE AND GENDER UPON THE EFFECTS OF CHRONIC NEUROINFLAMMATION
G.L. Wenk, L. Marriott, B. Hauss-Wegrzyniak

Oxidative Damage and the Mitochondrial Membrane in Age-related Cataract
N.S. Wolf, W.R. Pendergrass, P.E. Penn, G.M. Martin, H. VanRemmen

PARALLELS IN AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN LEARNING AND THE CEREBELLUM
D. S. Woodruff-Pak



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