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ReviewGeroScience2023

Calorie restriction mimetic drugs could favorably influence gut microbiota leading to lifespan extension.

Tomoya Shintani, Hideya Shintani, Masashi Sato, Hisashi Ashida

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Review in GeroScience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Tomoya ShintaniGraduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-Cho, Nada, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan. shintanitomoya@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-8959-8875
Hideya ShintaniDepartment of Internal Medicine, Towa Hospital, 4-13-15 Tanabe, Higashisumiyoshi, Osaka, 546-0031, Japan.
Masashi SatoFaculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, 2393 Ikenobe, Miki, Kagawa, 761-0701, Japan.
Hisashi AshidaFaculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kindai University, 930 Nishimitani, Kinokawa, Wakayama, 649-6493, Japan.
Japanese Urological Association · JPKagawa University · JPKindai University · JPTowa Pharmaceutical (Japan) · JP

Funding

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development JP22ae0121036Kieikai Research Foundation 2023S024
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Calorie restriction (CR) can prolong human lifespan, but enforcing long-term CR is difficult. Thus, a drug that reproduces the effects of CR without CR is required. More than 10 drugs have been listed as CR mimetics (CRM), and some of which are conventionally categorized as upstream-type CRMs showing glycolytic inhibition, whereas the others are categorized as downstream-type CRMs that regulate or genetically modulate intracellular signaling proteins. Intriguingly, recent reports have revealed the beneficial effects of CRMs on the body such as improving the host body condition via intestinal bacteria and their metabolites. This beneficial effect of gut microbiota may lead to lifespan extension. Thus, CRMs may have a dual effect on longevity. However, no reports have collectively discussed them as CRMs; hence, our knowledge about CRM and its physiological effects on the host remains fragmentary. This study is the first to present and collectively discuss the accumulative evidence of CRMs improving the gut environments for healthy lifespan extension, after enumerating the latest scientific findings related to the gut microbiome and CR. The conclusion drawn from this discussion is that CRM may partially extend the lifespan through its effect on the gut microbiota. CRMs increase beneficial bacteria abundance by decreasing harmful bacteria rather than increasing the diversity of the microbiome. Thus, the effect of CRMs on the gut could be different from that of conventional prebiotics and seemed similar to that of next-generation prebiotics.

Indexed as

Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeLongevityCaloric RestrictionHealth StatusHumansAcarboseAnti-agingCalorie restriction mimeticsGlucosamineMicrobiome

Identifiers

PMID37389698
PMCPMC10643761
OpenAlexW4382631359

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