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Age-Dependent Changes in the Plasma Proteome of Healthy Adults
1Xiaoyi Xiong and Qingwu Yang, No.183, Xinqiaozheng Street, Shapingba District, Chongqing 400037, China, Fax number: +86 23 6877 4413, xiongxy1989@hotmail.com (Xiaoyi Xiong) and yangqwmlys@hotmail.com (Qingwu Yang).
Objective:
Human blood plasma is a complex that communicates with most parts of the body and reflects the changes in the state of an organism. Identifying age-related biomarkers can help predict and monitor age-related physiological decline and diseases and identify new treatments for diseases.
Methods And Participants:
In this study, TMT-LC-MS/MS was utilized to screen differentially expressed plasma proteins in 118 healthy adults of different ages. Participants were divided into three groups: 21-30 years of age (Young), 41-50 years of age (Middle) and ≥60 years of age (Old).
Results:
The number of differentially expressed proteins in the comparisons of Young vs Middle, Middle vs Old and Young vs Old were 82, 22 and 99, respectively. These proteins were involved in numerous physiological processes, such as "negative regulation of smooth muscle cell proliferation" and "blood coagulation". Moreover, when Young was compared with Middle or Old, "complement and coagulation cascades" was the top enriched pathway by KEGG pathway enrichment analysis. Functional phenotyping of the proteome demonstrated that the plasma proteomic profiles of young adults were strikingly dissimilar to those of the middle-aged or older adults.
Conclusions:
The results of this study mapped the variation in the expression of plasma proteins and provided information about possible biomarkers/treatments for different age-related functional disorders.
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