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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
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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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- 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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Knozowski P, Nowakowski JJ, Stawicka AM, Dulisz B, Górski A. Effect of Management of Grassland on Prey Availability and Physiological Condition of Nestling of Red-Backed Shrike Lanius collurio. Animals (Basel) 2024; 14:1093. [PMID: 38612334 PMCID: PMC11011085 DOI: 10.3390/ani14071093] [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: 02/08/2024] [Revised: 03/28/2024] [Accepted: 03/29/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024] Open
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The study aimed to determine the influence of grassland management on the potential food base of the red-backed shrike Lanius collurio and the condition of chicks in the population inhabiting semi-natural grasslands in the Narew floodplain. The grassland area was divided into three groups: extensively used meadows, intensively used meadows fertilised with mineral fertilisers, and intensively used meadows fertilised with liquid manure, and selected environmental factors that may influence food availability were determined. Using Barber traps, 1825 samples containing 53,739 arthropods were collected, and the diversity, abundance, and proportion of large arthropods in the samples were analysed depending on the grassland use type. In the bird population, the condition of the chicks was characterised by the BCI (Body Condition Index) and haematological parameters (glucose level, haemoglobin level, haematocrit, and H:L ratio). The diversity of arthropods was highest in extensively used meadows. Still, the mean abundance and proportion of arthropods over 1 cm in length differed significantly for Orthoptera, Hymenoptera, Arachne, and Carabidae between grassland use types, with the highest proportion of large arthropods and the highest abundance recorded in manure-fertilised meadows. The highest Body Condition Indexes and blood glucose levels of nestlings indicating good nestling nutrition were recorded in nests of birds associated with extensive land use. The H:L ratio as an indicator of the physiological condition of nestlings was high on manure-fertilised and extensively managed meadows, indicating stress factors associated with these environments. This suggests that consideration should be given to the effects of chemicals, such as pesticides or drug residues, that may come from slurry poured onto fields on the fitness of red-backed shrike chicks.
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- Paweł Knozowski
- Department of Botany and Evolutionary Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Plac Łódzki 3, 10-727 Olsztyn, Poland; (A.M.S.); (B.D.)
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- Department of Botany and Evolutionary Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Plac Łódzki 3, 10-727 Olsztyn, Poland; (A.M.S.); (B.D.)
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- Department of Botany and Evolutionary Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Plac Łódzki 3, 10-727 Olsztyn, Poland; (A.M.S.); (B.D.)
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- Department of Botany and Evolutionary Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Plac Łódzki 3, 10-727 Olsztyn, Poland; (A.M.S.); (B.D.)
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Plac Łódzki 3, 10-727 Olsztyn, Poland;
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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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Récapet C, Sibeaux A, Cauchard L, Doligez B, Bize P. Selective disappearance of individuals with high levels of glycated haemoglobin in a free-living bird. Biol Lett 2017; 12:rsbl.2016.0243. [PMID: 27555645 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2016] [Accepted: 07/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Although disruption of glucose homeostasis is a hallmark of ageing in humans and laboratory model organisms, we have little information on the importance of this process in free-living animals. Poor control of blood glucose levels leads to irreversible protein glycation. Hence, levels of protein glycation are hypothesized to increase with age and to be associated with a decline in survival. We tested these predictions by measuring blood glycated haemoglobin in 274 adult collared flycatchers of known age and estimating individual probability of recapture in the following 2 years. Results show a strong decrease in glycated haemoglobin from age 1 to 5 years and an increase thereafter. Individuals with high levels of glycated haemoglobin had a lower probability of recapture, even after controlling for effects of age and dispersal. Altogether, our findings suggest that poor control of glucose homoeostasis is associated with lower survival in this free-living bird population, and that the selective disappearance of individuals with the highest glycation levels could account for the counterintuitive age-related decline in glycated haemoglobin in the early age categories.
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- Charlotte Récapet
- Laboratoire Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1-CNRS, Villeurbanne Cedex, France Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
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- Laboratoire Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1-CNRS, Villeurbanne Cedex, France Animal Ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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Avian wildlife as sentinels of ecosystem health. Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis 2013; 36:333-42. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2012.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2012] [Revised: 11/19/2012] [Accepted: 11/24/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Van Hout AJM, Pinxten R, Geens A, Eens M. Non-breeding song rate reflects nutritional condition rather than body condition. PLoS One 2012; 7:e36547. [PMID: 22590563 PMCID: PMC3348915 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2012] [Accepted: 04/08/2012] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Numerous studies have focused on song in songbirds as a signal involved in mate choice and intrasexual competition. It is expected that song traits such as song rate reflect individual quality by being dependent on energetic state or condition. While seasonal variation in bird song (i.e., breeding versus non-breeding song) and its neural substrate have received a fair amount of attention, the function and information content of song outside the breeding season is generally much less understood. Furthermore, typically only measures of condition involving body mass are examined with respect to song rate. Studies investigating a potential relationship between song rate and other indicators of condition, such as physiological measures of nutritional condition, are scant. In this study, we examined whether non-breeding song rate in male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) reflects plasma metabolite levels (high-density lipoproteins (HDL), albumin, triglycerides and cholesterol) and/or body mass. Song rate was significantly positively related to a principal component representing primarily HDL, albumin and cholesterol (and to a lesser degree plasma triglyceride levels). There was only a trend toward a significant positive correlation between song rate and body mass, and no significant correlation between body mass and the abovementioned principal component. Therefore, our results indicate that nutritional condition and body mass represent different aspects of condition, and that song rate reflects nutritional rather than body condition. Additionally, we also found that intra-individual song rate consistency (though not song rate itself) was significantly positively related to lutein levels, but not to body mass or nutritional condition. Together our results suggest that the relation between physiological measures of nutritional condition and song rate, as well as other signals, may present an interesting line of future research, both inside and outside the breeding season.
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Albano N, Masero JA, Villegas A, Abad-Gómez JM, Sánchez-Guzmán JM. Plasma metabolite levels predict bird growth rates: A field test of model predictive ability. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2011; 160:9-15. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2010] [Revised: 04/15/2011] [Accepted: 04/19/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Shahbazkia HR, Shareghi B, Aminlari M. Glycated Hemoglobin is an Indicator of Blood Glucose Status in Horses: Preliminary Study. J Equine Vet Sci 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jevs.2009.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Shahbazkia HR, Aminlari M, Tavasoli A, Mohamadnia AR, Cravador A. Associations among milk production traits and glycosylated haemoglobin in dairy cattle; importance of lactose synthesis potential. Vet Res Commun 2009; 34:1-9. [DOI: 10.1007/s11259-009-9324-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/02/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Geens A, Dauwe T, Eens M. Does anthropogenic metal pollution affect carotenoid colouration, antioxidative capacity and physiological condition of great tits (Parus major)? Comp Biochem Physiol C Toxicol Pharmacol 2009; 150:155-63. [PMID: 19394439 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2009.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2009] [Revised: 04/16/2009] [Accepted: 04/17/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Although several studies have shown that carotenoid-based signals are negatively affected by (metal) pollution, the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. There are two possible, not mutually exclusive, hypotheses to explain the metal-induced fading of carotenoid colouration. Metal pollution could affect oxidative stress levels and/or the diet. We assessed the expression of the yellow breast of adult and nestling great tits (Parus major) and related this to physiological parameters in plasma indicative of oxidative stress (total antioxidative capacity) and nutritional condition (albumin, triglyceride, total protein, cholesterol and uric acid concentrations). In four study sites along a metal pollution gradient, both adult and nestling great tits had significantly reduced carotenoid colouration at the most polluted sites. While nestlings' total antioxidative capacity was significantly affected by metal pollution, there was no significant effect on adults' total antioxidative capacity. Both for adult and nestling birds, no clear relation between total antioxidative capacity and carotenoid colouration was found. However, there were significant differences among sites in nutritional parameters, indicating that metal pollution might affect diet composition and quality. We found strong among brood variation in nestlings for all variables (except cholesterol), suggesting that there might be a considerable genetic and/or parental investment factor involved.
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- Ann Geens
- Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Antwerp, Belgium.
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Costantini D, Casagrande S, Carello L, Dell’Omo G. Body condition variation in kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) nestlings in relation to breeding conditions. Ecol Res 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/s11284-009-0604-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bańbura J, Bańbura M, Kaliński A, Skwarska J, Słomczyński R, Wawrzyniak J, Zieliński P. Habitat and year-to-year variation in haemoglobin concentration in nestling blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2007; 148:572-7. [PMID: 17826204 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2007] [Revised: 07/20/2007] [Accepted: 07/24/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Nutrition during the time spent at the nest is critical for the development of the body condition in altricial birds, including nestling blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus). Trophic conditions tend to be variable in time and space, which should influence the physiological condition of growing birds. In this paper, we consider haemoglobin concentration as a general indicator of chick physiological condition. Its variation is both consistent within broods and indicative/prognostic of survival from the moment of hatching to fledging. We show that haemoglobin concentration of nestling blue tits is on average higher in years and habitats characterised by rich abundance of caterpillars than under poor caterpillar availability. Haemoglobin seems to quite exactly reflect even relatively subtle differences in trophic conditions.
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- Jerzy Bańbura
- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, 90-237 Łódź, Poland.
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Costantini D, Casagrande S, Dell'Omo G. MF magnitude does not affect body condition, pro-oxidants and anti-oxidants in Eurasian kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) nestlings. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2007; 104:361-6. [PMID: 17433290 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2007.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2006] [Revised: 02/26/2007] [Accepted: 02/28/2007] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Pylons of utility lines are commonly used by breeding birds as structures for supporting their nests. Nesting near power lines, however, exposes adult birds and their offspring to the electric and magnetic fields (EMFs) produced by the current. Therefore, we searched for possible relationships between the magnetic field (MF) magnitude experienced by wild kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) nestlings grown on pylons and different health-related variables: body condition, serum concentration of carotenoids, reactive oxygen metabolites (ROMs; marker of early oxidative damage), serum anti-oxidant capacity (OXY), and the ratio between ROMs and OXY (index of oxidative stress). No significant relationships were found between the MF magnitude or squared MFs and any of the variables considered. Comparisons with values recorded in nestlings from non-exposed nests seem to confirm the absence of any effect of exposure to MFs produced by power lines on the variables considered.
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- David Costantini
- Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo, Università La Sapienza, Viale dell'Università 32, 00185 Roma, Italy.
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Glycated haemoglobin (HbG) as a stable indicator of blood glucose status in ostrich. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1007/s00580-007-0678-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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