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  • Title: Calorie restriction delays the crescentic glomerulonephritis of SCG/Kj mice.
    Author: Cherry, Engelman RW, Wang BY, Kinjoh K, El-Badri NS, Good RA.
    Journal: Proc Soc Exp Biol Med; 1998 Jul; 218(3):218-22. PubMed ID: 9648939.
    Abstract:
    Reduced dietary calories can delay the onset and diminish the severity of murine autoimmunities of numerous inbred and hybrid mutant strains. We sought to determine whether the precipitous, autoimmune, crescentic glomerulonephritis of recombinant inbred SCG/Kj mice could be abrogated similarly by calorie restriction. Weanling SCG/Kj mice develop hematuria and proteinuria, and 50% die as 16-week-old young adults. In this study, 113 4-week-old SCG/Kj mice were fed either ad libitum a milled chow (Group A, n = 50), or a semipurified diet (Group B, n = 29), or were fed a calorie-restricted semipurified diet (Group C, n = 34), so that mice of Group C consumed approximately 32% fewer calories, but similar amounts of essential dietary constituents as those of Group B. Calorie restriction of Group C provided modest (P = 0.05) or substantial survival advantage (P = 0.001) compared to the ad libitum feeding of Groups B or A, respectively. Progression to severe glomerular pathology was delayed among Group C mice, with more than a 5-week delay to heavy proteinuria (>100 mg/dl), a >4-week delay to hematuria, and a >5-week delay to median mortality, representing a 20% or 25% extension of median life span, compared to ad libitum-fed Group B and A mice, respectively. Mean glomerular histopathology scores were also lower in calorie-restricted mice compared to the ad libitum-fed cohorts (P = 0.001). Titers of anti-ss-DNA, ds-DNA, and ANCA autoantibodies developed in weanlings prior to the full imposition of calorie restriction and were not reduced significantly by calorie restriction.
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