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  • Title: Impaired glycolysis of human lymphocytes during aging.
    Author: Tollefsbol TO, Chapman ML, Zaun MR, Gracy RW.
    Journal: Mech Ageing Dev; 1981 Dec; 17(4):369-79. PubMed ID: 7329102.
    Abstract:
    When peripheral lymphocytes from young persons are stimulated in vitro with phytohemagglutinin, an increase in the levels of all the glycolytic enzymes occurs concomitantly with blastogenesis. The specific activities of enzymes increase approximately 200%, with a greater induction of the latter half of the pathway. The increases do not represent a general enzyme induction, since nonglycolytic enzymes such as glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase and isocitrate dehydrogenase do not increase during transformation. Human lymphocytes from a geriatric population were also subjected to mitogen stimulation under identical conditions. The initial levels of the enzymes were essentially identical in lymphocytes from young and old subjects as were cultured controls which received no mitogen. However, during mitogen stimulation the cells from the old subjects failed to increase the glycolytic enzymes. This inability to activate glycolysis may be related to the decline in cell-mediated immunity which is known to occur with advancing age.
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