My advice, longstanding, has been to take ¼ to 1 whole aspirin or ibuprofen a day (not both; not to be mixed in the same week) after about age 50 for lowered inflammation and protection from heart disease and cancer.  Evidence for protective effect of aspirin has weakened a bit in recent years, but is still holding up [2016].  For patients who have already had a heart attack, aspirin remains standard protocol, and evidence for this population is strongest.

To understand if the effect of miR-322 on BMP signaling is direct, we searched for potential binding sites on the 3′-UTR of the above proteins. Using an online tool (TargetScan, www.targetscan.org), putative seed match of miR-322 was predicted within the 3′- UTR of BMPR-2, BMPR1a, Smad5, and Smad4. Luciferase reporter assays with transfected 3′-UTR sequences along with miR-322 or miR-Con overexpressing vectors showed that only BMPR1a and Smad5 were repressed by miR-322 overexpression (Fig. 7b). Additional 3′-UTR mutation assays validated that miR-322 can directly target the predicted binding sites on the 3′-UTR of BMPR1a and Smad5 (Fig. 7c). To confirm that the regulation of miR-322 on cell proliferation and migration is achieved by targeting BMPR1a and Smad5, we carried out the following rescue experiments. As shown in Fig. 7d, the proliferation and migration of rat PASMCs, which were blocked by miR-322 inhibition (anti-322 and si-Con), were significantly increased by either BMPR1a or Smad5 knockdown (si-BMPR1a or si-Smad5 together with anti-Con). While, together transfection with si-BMPR1a or si-Smad5 almost completely rescued the proliferative and migratory repression caused by miR-322 inhibition. Taken together these results confirm that the positive role of miR-322 on PASMCs proliferation and migration could be fulfiled by post-transcriptionally regulating BMPR1a and Smad5.

These results raise the exciting possibility that epigenetic changes supersede/precede other aging hallmarks in the physiological aging process, as well, and may thus constitute a key target for future rejuvenation strategies. – Anne Brunet & Salah Mahmoudi

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I must respectfully disagree Florentin. There is nothing about aging or CR which grants us the power to disrupt the space-time continuum. This is just perception at best, but perhaps not even that. This was actually studied by Wittman and Lehnhoff in 2005 where they looked at 499 subjects aged 14-94 and asked them questions about the passage of time . To their surprise there was not a significant association between age and the individuals’ perception of time. EVERYBODY , regardless of age, thought that time was passing quickly. In 2010 Friedman and Janssen from Duke again looked at this with 50 students and 50 seniors to assess their perception of time. They found that people who experience time pressure, or not enough time to get everything done, are the ones where time passes quickest. Again, just a perception. My experience with those who starve themselves for a week is that the last 3 days feel like 3 weeks!

 “The inspections revealed some problems, none of them critical and all unrelated to the presence of NDMA in valsartan,” says Andre. 

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In a blog posted on April 12, 2016, Lawrence Yu, FDA’s deputy director of the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, expounded on the benefits of continuous manufacturing: greater reliability, safety, efficiency, responsiveness/flexibility, and reduced costs (1).

For miRNA overexpression experiments in rat PASMCs, lentiviral vectors based on pLVX-Puro backbone (Clontech, Mountain View, CA) were used to express miR-322 as described before22. To study the effect of the miRNAs on HIF-1α accumulation, adenovirus expressing oxygen dependent degradation domains (ODDD: HIF-1αamino acid 531–575) or mutated ODDD (ODDD-mut: P564A) were used to generate cells with or without stable endogenous total α-type HIF proteins as previously reported22. Plasmid vectors containing short hairpin RNA targeted to HIF-1α (shHIF-1α), HIF-2α (shHIF-2α) and nonspecific control (shControl) were constructed based on pLVX-hU6. The shRNA sequences containing the BamHI and MluI restriction sites were synthesized as follows: shHIF-1α, 5- GAT CCG AGA GGT GGA TAT GTC TGG GTC AAG AGC CCA GAC ATA TCC ACC TCT TTT TT -3; shHIF-2α, 5- GAT CCG TTG ATG AAT CCT CGA CTT ATC AAG AGT AAG TCG AGG ATT CAT CAA TTT TT -3; shControl, 5- GAT CCG GGT CTG TAT AGG TGG AGA TCA AGA GTC TCC ACC TAT ACA GAC CCT TTT T -3. Synthetic siRNAs for BMPR1a and Smad5 knockdown were purchased from GenePharma Co.,Ltd (GenePharma, Shanghai, China). Knockdown of miR-322 was achieved by using dTuD constructs against mature rno-miR-322, which was modified from TuD vector39 with one more TuD expression cassette. The sequence against cel-miR-39, an elegans miRNA, was used as a negative control. All constructs were subsequently confirmed by DNA sequencing.

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