Scripps Research, Mayo Clinic Scientists Find New Class of Drugs that Dramatically Increases Healthy Lifespan
A research team from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), Mayo Clinic and other institutions has identified a new class of drugs that in animal models dramatically slows the ageing proces s — alleviating symptoms of frailty, improving cardiac function and extending a healthy lifespan. The new research was published 9 March online ahead of print by the journal Aging Cell.
The scientists coined the term “senolytics” for the new class of drugs.
“We view this study as a big, first step toward developing treatments that can be given safely to patients to extend healthspan or to treat age-related diseases and disorders,” said TSRI Professor Paul Robbins, who with Associate Professor Laura Niedernhofer, led the research efforts for the paper at Scripps Florida. “When senolytic agents, like the combination we identified, are used clinically, the results could be transformative.”
“The prototypes of these senolytic agents have more than proven their ability to alleviate multiple characteristics associated with ageing,” said Mayo Clinic Professor James Kirkland, senior author of the new study. “It may eventually become feasible to delay, prevent, alleviate or even reverse multiple chronic diseases and disabilities as a group, instead of just one at a time.”
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