Out of material

My access to the journal has been cut, so I won't be able to keep doing this.

For now, I'll summarise what I am able to see in the abstracts, for future reference so that I can go back and see which ones sounded interesting.

Finishing issue 4 of 2000, there was the regular review of the gerontological literature column, but I'm only able to tell that one of the reviews was about AIDS shortening telomeres of CD4+ lymphocytes by inducing continuous replenishment.

On the first issue of 2001, there was:

Some meta-methodological paper by the Gavrilovs which I didn't grok from the abstract.

The Pierpaoli dude with his "crazy" experiments, implanting pineal glands from old and young rats into other young rats, and observing that those implanted old pineal glands aged and died younger but those with young pineal glands were not affected.

Another article characterising senescence-accelerated mice.

One of those very specific papers looking at effects of a variety of antioxidants on the oxidation of a variety of neurotransmitters.

Some experiments oxidising red blood cells with and without membranes, and something about the membranes making it worse due to lipid peroxidation, and quercetin (some flavonoid wikipedia tells me) helping somehow.

None of the papers sound very interesting, but I would read the pineal gland transplants one for fun.


Then there was a review of a book "Endocrinology of Aging", and the literature review which reviews at least one paper saying that inserting telomerase on CD8+ T cells doesn't immortalise them, and an extension of lifespan by superoxide dismutase/catalase mimetics, which I would be interested to read.