Table I.

Age modifiers and neurodegeneration

 Disease Protein Disease Age modifier Organism Reference 
PrP Prion diseases SIRT1 knockout Mouse Chen et al., 2008  
α-Synuclein Parkinson’s disease Rapamycin inhibition of TOR and 4E-BP overexpression Drosophila Tain et al., 2009  
Polyglutamine expansion, Tau Polyglutamine-expansion diseases, Alzheimer’s disease Rapamycin inhibition of TOR Tissue culture and Drosophila Berger et al., 2006  
Polyglutamine expansion Polyglutamine-expansion diseases Rapamycin inhibition of TOR Tissue culture, Drosophila, mice, and human Ravikumar et al., 2004  
Aβ Alzheimer’s disease Resveratrol activation of Sirtuin Cell culture Marambaud et al., 2005  
— — Deletion and overexpression of SIRT1 Mouse Lee et al., 2008  
Aβ Alzheimer’s disease SIRT1 overexpression Mouse Qin et al., 2006b  
α-Synuclein Parkinson’s disease SIRT2 inhibition Cultured neurons and Drosophila Outeiro et al., 2007  
Aβ Alzheimer’s disease IRS-2, neuronal IGF-1R and insulin receptor knockout Mouse Freude et al., 2009  
Aβ Alzheimer’s disease IGF-1 overexpression Mouse Palazzolo et al., 2009  
Aβ Alzheimer’s disease DAF-2 reduction C. elegans Cohen et al., 2006  
Aβ Alzheimer’s disease IGF-1R reduction Mouse Cohen et al., 2009  
 Disease Protein Disease Age modifier Organism Reference 
PrP Prion diseases SIRT1 knockout Mouse Chen et al., 2008  
α-Synuclein Parkinson’s disease Rapamycin inhibition of TOR and 4E-BP overexpression Drosophila Tain et al., 2009  
Polyglutamine expansion, Tau Polyglutamine-expansion diseases, Alzheimer’s disease Rapamycin inhibition of TOR Tissue culture and Drosophila Berger et al., 2006  
Polyglutamine expansion Polyglutamine-expansion diseases Rapamycin inhibition of TOR Tissue culture, Drosophila, mice, and human Ravikumar et al., 2004  
Aβ Alzheimer’s disease Resveratrol activation of Sirtuin Cell culture Marambaud et al., 2005  
— — Deletion and overexpression of SIRT1 Mouse Lee et al., 2008  
Aβ Alzheimer’s disease SIRT1 overexpression Mouse Qin et al., 2006b  
α-Synuclein Parkinson’s disease SIRT2 inhibition Cultured neurons and Drosophila Outeiro et al., 2007  
Aβ Alzheimer’s disease IRS-2, neuronal IGF-1R and insulin receptor knockout Mouse Freude et al., 2009  
Aβ Alzheimer’s disease IGF-1 overexpression Mouse Palazzolo et al., 2009  
Aβ Alzheimer’s disease DAF-2 reduction C. elegans Cohen et al., 2006  
Aβ Alzheimer’s disease IGF-1R reduction Mouse Cohen et al., 2009  

References and descriptions for Fig. 3. Each letter highlights its respective arrow in Fig. 3 and references the corresponding study.

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