Sex Differences in Longevity and in Responses to Anti-Aging Interventions: A Mini-Review

Gerontology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 40-46

  Austad, Steven N ^a   Bartke, Andrzej ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti aging; Female longevity bias; Insulin like growth factor; Life expectancy; Mechanistic target of rapamycin; Sex differences; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ACARBOSE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADIPONECTIN; ESTRADIOL; GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN RECEPTOR SUBSTRATE 1; LEPTIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; NORDIHYDROGUAIARETIC ACID; RAPAMYCIN; S6 KINASE; SEX HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GLYCOSIDASE INHIBITOR; INSULIN RECEPTOR; INSULIN RECEPTOR SUBSTRATE; IRS1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

ADL DISABILITY; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTI AGING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FEMALE; GENE REPRESSION; GENOTYPE; GONADECTOMY; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INCOME; INFLAMMATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE EXTENSION; LONGEVITY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACARBOSE; AGING; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ASPIRIN; FEMALE; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASE INHIBITORS; HUMANS; INSULIN RECEPTOR SUBSTRATE PROTEINS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LONGEVITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTOR, IGF TYPE 1; RECEPTOR, INSULIN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84952871213     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: 14230003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000381472     Document Type: Review

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