Vascular aging in the longest-living rodent, the naked mole rat.

@article{Csiszar2007VascularAI,
  title={Vascular aging in the longest-living rodent, the naked mole rat.},
  author={Anna Csiszar and Nazar Labinskyy and Zsuzsanna Orosz and Zhao Xiang-min and Rochelle Buffenstein and Zoltan I Ungvari},
  journal={American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology},
  year={2007},
  volume={293 2},
  pages={
          H919-27
        }
}
The naked mole rat (NMR; Heterocephalus glaber) is the longest-living rodent known [maximum lifespan potential (MLSP): >28 yr] and is a unique model of successful aging showing attenuated declines in most physiological function. This study addresses age-related changes in endothelial function and production of reactive oxygen species in NMR arteries and vessels of shorter-living Fischer 344 rats (MLSP: approximately 3 yr). Rats exhibit a significant age-dependent decline in acetylcholine… 
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Findings suggest that, notwithstanding the previously observed high lipid peroxidation in heart tissue, NMRs must possess mechanisms to stave off progression to fatal cardiac disease.
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It is reported that NMRs avoid sarcopenia for decades, and aged naked mole-rat skeletal muscle tissue contains some mitochondrial DNA rearrangements, although the common mitochondrial DNA deletions associated with aging in human and other rodent skeletal muscles are not present.
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