Nature Communications (May 2021)

Nicotinamide riboside attenuates age-associated metabolic and functional changes in hematopoietic stem cells

  • Xuan Sun,
  • Benjamin Cao,
  • Marina Naval-Sanchez,
  • Tony Pham,
  • Yu Bo Yang Sun,
  • Brenda Williams,
  • Shen Y. Heazlewood,
  • Nikita Deshpande,
  • Jinhua Li,
  • Felix Kraus,
  • James Rae,
  • Quan Nguyen,
  • Hamed Yari,
  • Jan Schröder,
  • Chad K. Heazlewood,
  • Madeline Fulton,
  • Jessica Hatwell-Humble,
  • Kaustav Das Gupta,
  • Ronan Kapetanovic,
  • Xiaoli Chen,
  • Matthew J. Sweet,
  • Robert G. Parton,
  • Michael T. Ryan,
  • Jose M. Polo,
  • Christian M. Nefzger,
  • Susan K. Nilsson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22863-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Aged hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) are characterised by reduced regenerative potential and a loss of quiescence. Here, the authors show nicotinamide riboside treatment shrinks the age-enlarged stem cell pool and shifts aged HSC functionally, metabolically and molecularly towards the young state.