New Insights into Healthy Ageing, Inflammageing and Frailty using Metabolomics

Abdullah, Genna, Akpan, Asangaedem, Phelan, Marie and Wright, Helen ORCID: 0000-0003-0442-3134 (2024) New Insights into Healthy Ageing, Inflammageing and Frailty using Metabolomics Frontiers in Aging, 5. 1426436-. ISSN 2673-6217, 2673-6217

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Abstract

Human ageing is a normal process and does not necessarily result in the development of frailty. A mix of genetic, environmental, dietary, and lifestyle factors can have an impact on ageing, and whether an individual develops frailty. Frailty is defined as the loss of physiological reserve both at the physical and cellular levels, where systemic processes such as oxidative stress and inflammation contribute to physical decline. The newest 'omics' technology and systems biology discipline, metabolomics, enables thorough characterisation of small-molecule metabolites in biological systems at a particular time and condition. In a biological system, metabolites—cellular intermediate products of metabolic reactions—reflect the system's final response to genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, epigenetic, or environmental alterations. As a relatively newer technique to characterise metabolites and biomarkers in ageing and illness, metabolomics has gained popularity and has a wide range of applications. We will give a comprehensive summary of what is currently known about metabolomics in studies of ageing, with a focus on biomarkers for frailty. Metabolites related to amino acids, lipids, carbohydrates, and redox metabolism may function as biomarkers of ageing and/or frailty development, based on data obtained from human studies. However, there is a complexity that underpins biological ageing, due to both genetic and environmental factors that play a role in orchestrating the ageing process. Therefore, there is a critical need to identify pathways that contribute to functional decline in people with frailty.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	healthy ageing, inflammageing, frailty, metabolism, metabolomics
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	25 Jun 2024 07:07
Last Modified:	16 Jun 2026 19:54
DOI:	10.3389/fragi.2024.1426436
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3182405
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