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ArticleAging cell2021

Age-related changes in metabolites in young donor livers and old recipient sera after liver transplantation from young to old rats.

Qunhua Han, Hui Li, Mengyuan Jia, Lin Wang, Yulan Zhao, Mangli Zhang, Qin Zhang, Zhuoxian Meng, Jimin Shao, Yunmei Yang and 1 more

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Article in Aging cell, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Qunhua HanDepartment of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Hui LiNHFPC Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-Organ Transplantation, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Mengyuan JiaDepartment of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Lin WangZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pancreatic Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Yulan ZhaoZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pancreatic Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Mangli ZhangDepartment of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Qin ZhangDepartment of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Zhuoxian MengZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pancreatic Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Jimin ShaoDepartment of Pathology & Pathophysiology, and Cancer Institute of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Yunmei YangDepartment of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Lijun ZhuDepartment of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1537-2638
First Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University · CNSecond Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University · CNMinistry of Public Health · MG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liver ageing not only damages liver function but also harms systemic metabolism. To better understand the mechanisms underlying liver ageing, we transplanted the livers of young rats to young and old rats and performed untargeted metabolomics to detect changes in the metabolites in the liver tissues and sera. A total of 153 metabolites in the livers and 83 metabolites in the sera were different between the old and young rats that did not undergo liver transplantation; among these metabolites, 7 different metabolites were observed in both the livers and sera. Five weeks after liver transplantation, the levels of 25 metabolites in the young donor livers were similar to those in the old rats, and this result probably occurred due to the effect of the whole-body environment of the older recipients on the young livers. The 25 altered metabolites included organic acids and derivatives, lipids and lipid-like molecules, etc. In the sera, the differences in 78 metabolites, which were significant between the young and old rats, were insignificant in the old recipient rats and made the metabolic profile of the old recipients more similar to that of the young recipients. Finally, combining the above metabolomic data with the transcriptomic data from the GEO, we found that the altered metabolites and genes in the liver were enriched in 9 metabolic pathways, including glycerophospholipid, arachidonic acid, histidine and linoleate. Thus, this study revealed important age-related metabolites and potential pathways as well as the interaction between the liver and the whole-body environment.

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Age FactorsAnimalsLiverLiver TransplantationLiving DonorsRatsliver ageingmetabolic pathwaysorthotopic liver transplantationtranscriptomicsuntargeted metabolomics

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