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Duval C, Criscuolo F, Bertile F. Glycation resistance and life-history traits: lessons from non-conventional animal models. Biol Lett 2024; 20:20230601. [PMID: 38863347 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2024] [Indexed: 06/13/2024] Open
Abstract
Glycation reactions play a key role in the senescence process and are involved in numerous age-related pathologies, such as diabetes complications or Alzheimer's disease. As a result, past studies on glycation have mostly focused on human and laboratory animal models for medical purposes. Very little is known about glycation and its link to senescence in wild animal species. Yet, despite feeding on high-sugar diets, several bat and bird species are long-lived and seem to escape the toxic effects of high glycaemia. The study of these models could open new avenues both for understanding the mechanisms that coevolved with glycation resistance and for treating the damaging effects of glycations in humans. Our understanding of glycaemia's correlation to proxies of animals' pace of life is emerging in few wild species; however, virtually nothing is known about their resistance to glycation, nor on the relationship between glycation, species' life-history traits and individual fitness. Our review summarizes the scarce current knowledge on the links between glycation and life-history traits in non-conventional animal models, highlighting the predominance of avian research. We also investigate some key molecular and physiological parameters involved in glycation regulation, which hold promise for future research on fitness and senescence of individuals.
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Affiliation(s)
- Cyrielle Duval
- University of Strasbourg, CNRS, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, UMR 7178 , Strasbourg 67000, France
- Infrastructure de Protéomique, ProFi , Strasbourg FR2048, France
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- University of Strasbourg, CNRS, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, UMR 7178 , Strasbourg 67000, France
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- University of Strasbourg, CNRS, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, UMR 7178 , Strasbourg 67000, France
- Infrastructure de Protéomique, ProFi , Strasbourg FR2048, France
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Ryan TA, Taff CC, Zimmer C, Vitousek MN. Cold temperatures induce priming of the glucose stress response in tree swallows. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2023; 280:111419. [PMID: 36965830 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2023.111419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2022] [Revised: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 03/21/2023] [Indexed: 03/27/2023]
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Capricious environments often present wild animals with challenges that coincide or occur in sequence. Conceptual models of the stress response predict that one threat may prime or dampen the response to another. Although evidence has supported this for glucocorticoid responses, much less is known about the effects of previous challenges on energy mobilization. Food limitation may have a particularly important effect, by altering the ability to mobilize energy when faced with a subsequent challenge. We tested the prediction that challenging weather conditions, which reduce food availability, alter the energetic response to a subsequent acute challenge (capture and restraint). Using a three-year dataset from female tree swallows measured during three substages of breeding, we used a model comparison approach to test if weather (temperature, wind speed, and precipitation) over 3- or 72-hour timescales predicted baseline and post-restraint glucose levels, and if so which environmental factors were the strongest predictors. Contrary to our predictions, weather conditions did not affect baseline glucose; however, birds that had experienced lower temperatures over the preceding 72 h tended to have higher stress-induced glucose when faced with an acute stressor. We also saw some support for an effect of rainfall on stress-induced glucose: around the time that eggs hatched, birds that had experienced more rainfall over the preceding 72 h mounted lower responses. Overall, we find support in a wild animal for the idea that the glucose stress response may be primed by exposure to prior challenges.
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- Thomas A Ryan
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA; Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA; Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Experimental and Comparative Ethology, University Sorbonne Paris Nord, Villetaneuse, France
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA; Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Tomášek O, Bobek L, Kauzálová T, Kauzál O, Adámková M, Horák K, Kumar SA, Manialeu JP, Munclinger P, Nana ED, Nguelefack TB, Sedláček O, Albrecht T. Latitudinal but not elevational variation in blood glucose level is linked to life history across passerine birds. Ecol Lett 2022; 25:2203-2216. [PMID: 36082485 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2022] [Accepted: 08/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Macrophysiological research is vital to our understanding of mechanisms underpinning global life history variation and adaptation to diverse environments. Here, we examined latitudinal and elevational variation in a key substrate of energy metabolism and an emerging physiological component of pace-of-life syndromes, blood glucose concentration. Our data, collected from 61 European temperate and 99 Afrotropical passerine species, revealed that baseline blood glucose increases with both latitude and elevation, whereas blood glucose stress response shows divergent directions, being stronger at low latitudes and high elevations. Low baseline glucose in tropical birds, compared to their temperate counterparts, was mainly explained by their low fecundity, consistent with the slow pace-of-life syndrome in the tropics. In contrast, elevational variation in this trait was decoupled from fecundity, implying a unique montane pace-of-life syndrome combining slow-paced life histories with fast-paced physiology. The observed patterns suggest that pace-of-life syndromes do not evolve along the single fast-slow axis.
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- Oldřich Tomášek
- Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czechia.,Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czechia
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- Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czechia
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- Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czechia.,Faculty of Science, Department of Ecology, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czechia.,Faculty of Science, Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
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- Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czechia
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- Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czechia.,Faculty of Science, Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
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- Faculty of Science, Laboratory of Animal Physiology and Phytopharmacology, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon
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- Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Agricultural Research Institute for Development (IRAD), Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Faculty of Science, Laboratory of Animal Physiology and Phytopharmacology, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon
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- Faculty of Science, Department of Ecology, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czechia.,Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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Sweazea KL. Revisiting glucose regulation in birds - A negative model of diabetes complications. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2022; 262:110778. [PMID: 35817273 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2022.110778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2022] [Revised: 07/01/2022] [Accepted: 07/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Birds naturally have blood glucose concentrations that are nearly double levels measured for mammals of similar body size and studies have shown that birds are resistant to insulin-mediated glucose uptake into tissues. While a combination of high blood glucose and insulin resistance is associated with diabetes-related pathologies in mammals, birds do not develop such complications. Moreover, studies have shown that birds are resistant to oxidative stress and protein glycation and in fact, live longer than similar-sized mammals. This review seeks to explore how birds regulate blood glucose as well as various theories that might explain their apparent resistance to insulin-mediated glucose uptake and adaptations that enable them to thrive in a state of relative hyperglycemia.
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Resistance to glycation in the zebra finch: Mass spectrometry-based analysis and its perspectives for evolutionary studies of aging. Exp Gerontol 2022; 164:111811. [PMID: 35472570 DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2022.111811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2021] [Revised: 03/15/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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In humans, hyperglycemia is associated with protein glycation, which may contribute to aging. Strikingly, birds usually outlive mammals of the same body mass, while exhibiting high plasma glucose levels. However, how birds succeed in escaping pro-aging effects of glycation remains unknown. Using a specific mass spectrometry-based approach in captive zebra finches of known age, we recorded high glycaemia values but no glycated hemoglobin form was found. Still, we showed that zebra finch hemoglobin can be glycated in vitro, albeit only to a limited extent compared to its human homologue. This may be due to peculiar structural features, as supported by the unusual presence of three different tetramer populations with balanced proportions and a still bound cofactor that could be inositol pentaphosphate. High levels of the glycated forms of zebra finch plasma serotransferrin, carbonic anhydrase 2, and albumin were measured. Glucose, age or body mass correlations with either plasma glycated proteins or hemoglobin isoforms suggest that those variables may be future molecular tools of choice to monitor glycation and its link with individual fitness. Our molecular advance may help determine how evolution succeeded in associating flying ability, high blood glucose and long lifespan in birds.
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Montoya B, Briga M, Jimeno B, Verhulst S. Glucose regulation is a repeatable trait affected by successive handling in zebra finches. J Comp Physiol B 2020; 190:455-464. [PMID: 32424441 DOI: 10.1007/s00360-020-01283-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2019] [Revised: 04/16/2020] [Accepted: 05/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The capacity to adequately respond to (physiological) perturbations is a fundamental aspect of physiology, and may affect health and thereby Darwinian fitness. However, little is known of the degree of individual variation in this capacity in non-model organisms. The glucose tolerance test evaluates the individual's ability to regulate circulating glucose levels, and is a widely used tool in medicine and biomedical research, because glucose regulation is thought to play a role in the ageing process, among other reasons. Here, we developed an application of the intraperitoneal glucose tolerance test (IP-GTT) to be used in small birds, to test whether individuals can be characterized by their regulation of glucose levels and the effect of successive handling on such regulation. Since the IP-injection (intraperitoneal glucose injection), repeated handling and blood sampling may trigger a stress response, which involves a rise in glucose levels, we also evaluated the effects of handling protocols on glucose response. Blood glucose levels decreased immediately following an IP-injection, either vehicle or glucose loaded, and increased with successive blood sampling. Blood glucose levels peaked, on average, at 20 min post-injection (PI) and had not yet returned back to initial levels at 120 min PI. Glucose measurements taken during the IP-GTT were integrated to estimate magnitude of changes in glucose levels over time using the incremental area under the curve (AUC) up to 40 min PI. Glucose levels integrated in the AUC were significantly repeatable within individuals over months (r = 50%; 95% CI 30-79%), showing that the ability to regulate glucose differs consistently between individuals.
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- Bibiana Montoya
- Laboratorio de Conducta Animal, Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico. .,Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. .,Centro Tlaxcala de Biología de la Conducta (CTBC), Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala, México.
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.,Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.,Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Antioxidant capacity is repeatable across years but does not consistently correlate with a marker of peroxidation in a free-living passerine bird. J Comp Physiol B 2019; 189:283-298. [DOI: 10.1007/s00360-019-01211-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2018] [Revised: 01/22/2019] [Accepted: 03/01/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Tomasek O, Bobek L, Kralova T, Adamkova M, Albrecht T. Fuel for the pace of life: Baseline blood glucose concentration co-evolves with life-history traits in songbirds. Funct Ecol 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Oldrich Tomasek
- Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Brno Czech Republic
- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science; Charles University; Prague 2 Czech Republic
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- Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Brno Czech Republic
- Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science; Masaryk University; Brno Czech Republic
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- Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Brno Czech Republic
- Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science; Masaryk University; Brno Czech Republic
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- Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Brno Czech Republic
- Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science; Masaryk University; Brno Czech Republic
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- Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Brno Czech Republic
- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science; Charles University; Prague 2 Czech Republic
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Baseline glucose level is an individual trait that is negatively associated with lifespan and increases due to adverse environmental conditions during development and adulthood. J Comp Physiol B 2018; 188:517-526. [PMID: 29313093 DOI: 10.1007/s00360-017-1143-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2017] [Revised: 12/07/2017] [Accepted: 12/19/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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High baseline glucose levels are associated with pathologies and shorter lifespan in humans, but little is known about causes and consequences of individual variation in glucose levels in other species. We tested to what extent baseline blood glucose level is a repeatable trait in adult zebra finches, and whether glucose levels were associated with age, manipulated environmental conditions during development (rearing brood size) and adulthood (foraging cost), and lifespan. We found that: (1) repeatability of glucose levels was 30%, both within and between years. (2) Having been reared in a large brood and living with higher foraging costs as adult were independently associated with higher glucose levels. Furthermore, the finding that baseline glucose was low when ambient temperature was high, and foraging costs were low, indicates that glucose is regulated at a lower level when energy turnover is low. (3) Survival probability decreased with increasing baseline glucose. We conclude that baseline glucose is an individual trait negatively associated with survival, and increases due to adverse environmental conditions during development (rearing brood size) and adulthood (foraging cost). Blood glucose may be, therefore, part of the physiological processes linking environmental conditions to lifespan.
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