VÁGÁSI, Csongor I., Orsolya VINCZE, Marie KOTASOVÁ ADÁMKOVÁ, Tereza KAUZÁLOVÁ, Ádám Z. LENDVAI, Laura I. PATRAS, Janka PÉNZES, Péter L. PAP, Tomáš ALBRECHT and Oldřich TOMÁŠEK. Songbirds avoid the oxidative stress costs of high blood glucose levels: a comparative study. The Journal of Experimental Biology. Company of Biologists Ltd, 2024, vol. 227, No 1, p. jeb246848, 8 pp. ISSN 0022-0949. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.246848.
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Original name Songbirds avoid the oxidative stress costs of high blood glucose levels: a comparative study
Authors VÁGÁSI, Csongor I., Orsolya VINCZE, Marie KOTASOVÁ ADÁMKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Tereza KAUZÁLOVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Ádám Z. LENDVAI, Laura I. PATRAS, Janka PÉNZES, Péter L. PAP, Tomáš ALBRECHT (203 Czech Republic) and Oldřich TOMÁŠEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition The Journal of Experimental Biology, Company of Biologists Ltd, 2024, 0022-0949.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10615 Ornithology
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 2.800 in 2022
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.246848
UT WoS 001214515700010
Keywords in English Antioxidants; Glucose; Hyperglycaemia; Lipid peroxidation; Phylogenetic comparison; Physiological ecology
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Abstract
Chronically high blood glucose levels (hyperglycaemia) can compromise healthy ageing and lifespan at the individual level. Elevated oxidative stress can play a central role in hyperglycaemia-induced pathologies. Nevertheless, the lifespan of birds shows no species-level association with blood glucose. This suggests that the potential pathologies of high blood glucose levels can be avoided by adaptations in oxidative physiology at the macroevolutionary scale. However, this hypothesis remains unexplored. Here, we examined this hypothesis using comparative analyses controlled for phylogeny, allometry and fecundity based on data from 51 songbird species (681 individuals with blood glucose data and 1021 individuals with oxidative state data). We measured blood glucose at baseline and after stress stimulus and computed glucose stress reactivity as the magnitude of change between the two time points. We also measured three parameters of non-enzymatic antioxidants (uric acid, total antioxidants and glutathione) and a marker of oxidative lipid damage (malondialdehyde). We found no clear evidence for blood glucose concentration being correlated with either antioxidant or lipid damage levels at the macroevolutionary scale, as opposed to the hypothesis postulating that high blood glucose levels entail oxidative costs. The only exception was the moderate evidence for species with a stronger stress-induced increase in blood glucose concentration evolving moderately lower investment into antioxidant defence (uric acid and glutathione). Neither baseline nor stress-induced glucose levels were associated with oxidative physiology. Our findings support the hypothesis that birds evolved adaptations preventing the (glyc)oxidative costs of high blood glucose observed at the within-species level. Such adaptations may explain the decoupled evolution of glycaemia and lifespan in birds and possibly the paradoxical combination of long lifespan and high blood glucose levels relative to mammals.
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GA21-22160S, research and development projectName: Diverzita a fyziologické mechanizmy stárnutí v populaci volně žijícího pěvce
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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