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Canagliflozin extends life span in genetically heterogeneous male but not female mice.

JCI insight | 2020

Canagliflozin (Cana) is an FDA-approved diabetes drug that protects against cardiovascular and kidney diseases. It also inhibits the sodium glucose transporter 2 by blocking renal reuptake and intestinal absorption of glucose. In the context of the mouse Interventions Testing Program, genetically heterogeneous mice were given chow containing Cana at 180 ppm at 7 months of age until their death. Cana extended median survival of male mice by 14%. Cana also increased by 9% the age for 90th percentile survival, with parallel effects seen at each of 3 test sites. Neither the distribution of inferred cause of death nor incidental pathology findings at end-of-life necropsies were altered by Cana. Moreover, although no life span benefits were seen in female mice, Cana led to lower fasting glucose and improved glucose tolerance in both sexes, diminishing fat mass in females only. Therefore, the life span benefit of Cana is likely to reflect blunting of peak glucose levels, because similar longevity effects are seen in male mice given acarbose, a diabetes drug that blocks glucose surges through a distinct mechanism, i.e., slowing breakdown of carbohydrate in the intestine. Interventions that control daily peak glucose levels deserve attention as possible preventive medicines to protect from a wide range of late-life neoplastic and degenerative diseases.

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Associated grants

  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U24 AG056053
  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U01 AG022303
  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U01 AG022307
  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P30 DK089503
  • Agency: NIEHS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P30 ES020957
  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P30 DK056336
  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P30 DK020572
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 GM101171
  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P30 AG050886
  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U01 AG022308
  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P30 DK079626
  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P30 AG013319
  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P30 AG024824
  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U24 AG066346

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