Macroautophagy and normal aging of the nervous system: Lessons from animal models

Aging represents a cumulative form of cellular stress, which is thought to challenge many aspects of proteostasis. The non-dividing, long-lived neurons are particularly vulnerable to stress, and, not sur-prisingly, even normal aging is highly associated with a decline in brain function in humans, as...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cell Stress 2021-10, Vol.5 (10), p.146-166
Hauptverfasser: Kallergi, Emmanouela, Nikoletopoulou, Vassiliki
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Zusammenfassung:Aging represents a cumulative form of cellular stress, which is thought to challenge many aspects of proteostasis. The non-dividing, long-lived neurons are particularly vulnerable to stress, and, not sur-prisingly, even normal aging is highly associated with a decline in brain function in humans, as well as in other animals. Macroautophagy is a fundamental arm of the proteostasis network, safeguarding proper protein turnover during different cellular states and against diverse cellular stressors. An intricate interplay between macroautophagy and aging is beginning to unravel, with the emergence of new tools, including those for monitoring autophagy in cultured neurons and in the nervous system of different organisms in vivo. Here, we review recent findings on the impact of aging on neuronal integrity and on neuronal macroautophagy, as they emerge from studies in inverte-brate and mammalian models.
ISSN:2523-0204
2523-0204
DOI:10.15698/cst2021.10.257