Türk halk ilaçlarının C.elegans ömür uzunluğu üzerine etkisinin araştırılması
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2012
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Biyoteknoloji Enstitüsü
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Aging is a process, which contributes to the functional loss of an organism and ultimately carries it to death with the passage of time. For many years, medical science, is working to improve the quality of life. In addition to improving the quality of life, increasing the maximum life expectancy was also intended. The incidence of age related diseases such as obesity, diabetes, atherosclerosis, cancer, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer and depression was observed to be increased with the improvement of life quality and increase in life expectancy. Research in the field of aging is getting important not only it is related to the prolongation of life expectancy, but also related to prevention of the diseases that occur with aging.The use of model organisms is quite common for the elucidation of biological processes. Caenorhabditis elegans is a model organism that is commonly used in aging studies since its genome is well-known, it shows 60-80% homology with human genome, can be easily manipulated in laboratory conditions and it has nearly 20 days of survival time.As it is well known that vast majority of the drugs are obtained from plant sources. There is a high probability of developing a drug candidate molecule from a plant used as a folk medicine. Turkey has a very rich flora most of which are endemic and has a rich folk medicine culture. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of Turkish folk medicines to aging and some age related diseases. 12 plant extracts with antidiabetic and antibacterial activities, which are believed to be panacea, were chosen form previously reported folk medicine inventory studies and their effects on C. elegans longevity was investigated. Additionally, some pathway analysis was also conducted with the experiments performed with mutant strains.
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ilaç, C.elegans