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Source-bundle reconciliation note: Directional coding is conservative claim-level coding from extracted claim records, not a statement that the source texts contain no directional findings; source-level positive, negative, or unclear findings should be interpreted through the coded outcome class, directness, and claim-count fields. The retained evidence has no direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence; indirect, review-level, adjacent, or mechanistic sources are used only to bound interpretation. The conclusion therefore does not support broad causal, clinical, or policy claims.\n\nThis paper synthesizes evidence on sirtuin biomarker effects across 14 included source papers and 551 high-confidence extracted claims.\n\nThe evidence profile contains no sources classified primarily as direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence, 13 adjacent clinical sources, and 1 mechanistic or model-system source, with 0 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base.\n\nPositive study-level signals are summarized in the immune and inflammation outcome class; null signals are summarized in the contextual adjacent evidence, deficiency prevalence, and immune and inflammation outcome classes; negative signals are not the dominant direction in any outcome class; mixed or heterogeneous signals are summarized in the cardiometabolic outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect.\n\nThe conclusion is that sirtuin biomarker effects should be treated as a bounded geroscience hypothesis: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.\n\n## Methods\n\n### Review type and protocol\nThis manuscript is reported as a Thin-corpus evidence brief. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. The full audit trail is in the supplementary `methods_pack.json` and the timestamped submission directory `synthesis-sirtuin_biomarker_effects-v06-DAILY-2026-06-21T20-00-39Z`.\n\n### Information sources\nSources were retrieved across PubMed, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, DOAJ, OpenAIRE, PMC OAI, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Retrieval window: 2026-06-21.\n\n### Search strategy\nThe following topic-anchored queries were executed against the information sources listed above:\n\n- `sirtuin biomarker effects aging`\n- `sirtuin biomarker effects older adults`\n- `sirtuin biomarker effects randomized controlled trial`\n- `sirtuin aging`\n- `sirtuin older adults`\n- `sirtuin randomized controlled trial`\n- `biomarker aging`\n- `biomarker older adults`\n- `biomarker randomized controlled trial`\n\n### Eligibility criteria\n- Sources whose primary content addresses sirtuin biomarker effects.\n- Sources with extractable quantitative or qualitative findings.\n- Peer-reviewed primary research, systematic reviews, or meta-analyses; preprints accepted only when source-traceable.\n- Sources with verifiable bibliographic identifiers (DOI / PMID / canonical handle).\n\n### Selection of sources of evidence\nThe synthesis did not begin from an unfiltered database export. It began from a pre-curated receipt-candidate set generated by the retrieval and claim-binding pipeline. Of 195 records in the receipt-candidate union, 75 were classified as source candidates and 14 were admitted as traceable synthesis sources. Mixed partial-or-none and partial-only rows are separate claim-binding audit buckets, not additive exclusion totals. No additional records were excluded after final source admission.\n\n### source admission funnel\n\n| Admission bucket | n |\n|---|---:|\n| Receipt candidate union | 195 |\n| Classified source candidates | 75 |\n| No extractable claims | 19 |\n| None-only claim binding | 5 |\n| Mixed partial-or-none claim-binding candidates | 22 |\n| Partial-only claim-binding candidates | 2 |\n| Strict high-confidence sources | 1 |\n| Admitted final sources | 14 |\n\n### Exclusion reasons\n- No records were excluded at the gates instrumented for this run: the eligibility criteria above were applied during retrieval and claim-binding but produced no post-screening exclusions with recorded counts for this corpus.\n\n### Data items\nThe following fields were extracted from each included source: study design, population / cohort, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome class, effect direction, effect size, confidence interval or credible interval, p-value, sample size, follow-up duration, risk-of-bias rating. Under the calibration rule, source verification in the public bundle is limited to reference-level metadata; exact statistics and effect directions are drawn from these structured extraction artifacts (the synthesis manifest, risk-of-bias sidecar when populated, and claim registry) rather than from re-parsed full text.\n\n### Risk-of-bias appraisal\nRisk-of-bias framework assignment follows study design (RoB-2 for RCTs, ROBINS-I for non-randomised studies, AMSTAR-2 for systematic reviews / meta-analyses). Public appraisal claims are limited to populated `risk_of_bias.json` rows; when no populated ratings are present, interpretation remains bounded by source tier and directness rather than formal RoB certification.\n\n### Synthesis approach\nEvidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (cardiometabolic, contextual adjacent evidence, deficiency prevalence, immune and inflammation, immune and inflammation); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates.\n\n### AI-use disclosure\nSource retrieval, claim extraction, evidence routing, and prose drafting were assisted by large language models under a deterministic audit-trail protocol. Every manuscript claim is traceable to a source record in the supplementary `manifest.json`. Final eligibility and interpretation decisions are author-verified.\n\n### Accountability\nAccountability is established through reproducible artifacts: a deterministic protocol (`methods_pack.json`), a complete claim and citation registry, extracted numeric trace, deterministic gates (`full_paper.journal_surface.json`, `pre_submit_gate.json`, `artifact_consistency.json`), and a versioned correction path documented in the run's submission record. Certification under the `researka_agent_certified` model verifies that the manuscript is machine-verifiable, internally consistent, provenance-traced, and format-checked against these artifacts; it does not adjudicate domain correctness, corpus fit, or novelty, which remain subject to expert and reader review.\n\n## Results\n| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=8; claims=226 | no extracted directional signal in 8/8 sources | 7 indirect; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Cardiometabolic | n=3; claims=234 | unclear signal in 2/3 sources | 3 indirect | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Immune and Inflammation | n=2; claims=80 | positive signal in 1/2 sources | 1 indirect; 1 mechanistic | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Deficiency Prevalence | n=1; claims=11 | no extracted directional signal in 1/1 sources | 1 indirect | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |\n\n**Outcome-class note:** Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence; these sources bound scope, safety, methods, and translation rather than serving as equal-weight support for the main efficacy claim.\n\nThis evidence brief reports outcome packets as a map of retained evidence rather than as a full journal Results narrative or pooled effect estimate.\n\n### Contextual Adjacent Evidence Outcomes\n\n8 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=8. Directness coding: indirect=7, review=1.\n\n### Cardiometabolic Outcomes\n\n3 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1, unclear=2. Directness coding: indirect=3.\n\n### Deficiency Prevalence Outcomes\n\n1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1. Directness coding: indirect=1.\n\n### Immune Outcomes\n\n1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: positive=1. Directness coding: mechanistic=1.\n\n1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1. Directness coding: indirect=1.\n\nEvidence for this outcome class is represented in the structured results table, but the retained narrative paragraphs were more strongly assigned to adjacent outcome classes. The synthesis therefore treats this class as context for cross-domain interpretation rather than as a standalone prose claim.\n\n## Limitations\n\n**Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim.\n\nThe curated corpus for Sirtuin is dominated by observational cohort designs and preclinical experiments rather than long-term randomized trials in clinically-relevant populations. There is no long-term mortality trial in this corpus, no diabetes-prevention RCT, and no geriatric functional-outcome trial anchored to canonical thresholds such as the 0.8 m/s gait-speed cutoff (Studenski 2011) or the EWGSOP2 grip-strength cutoffs of 27 kg for men and 16 kg for women (Cruz-Jentoft 2019). Consequently, the headline characterization of sirtuin biomarkers as a 'context-dependent' signal rests on indirect, indirect, and mechanistic evidence rather than on hard-outcome RCT confirmation.\n\nSeveral outcome classes in the corpus are supported by only a single source, which means within-corpus replication is not possible. Because each of these outcome classes depends on one study's design choices, dosing, and population, the synthesis cannot distinguish a true null from a study-specific or measurement-specific null, and the boundary conditions of any effect remain undefined.\n\nThe population enrolled across the human sources is narrow and middle-aged-to-older, and it excludes several groups for whom sirtuin biomarker claims are often made.\n\nEndpoint scope is a second-order limitation. It does not measure hard clinical endpoints: no mortality, no incident disability, no fracture, no hospitalization, and no adjudicated cardiovascular event. The Ioannidis 2005 caution that surrogate associations do not guarantee hard-outcome validity applies directly: the sirtuin-biomarker-to-clinical-outcome inferential chain is unbridged in this corpus, and any claim that sirtuin modulation 'works' in humans is unsupported by the sources on hand.\n\nFinally, the corpus carries a mechanism-to-clinic gap that is structural rather than incidental. The preclinical and in-vitro sources (Cao 2022 NR gavage at 400 mg/kg/day in mice; Ding 2021 multiple-myeloma cell lines; Fu 2022 cisplatin-nephrotoxicity murine model at 8 mg/kg/week; Tsai 2021 pancreatic adenocarcinoma models with 125 mg/kg luciferin; Patyal 2024 SIRT1-v1 transfection in n = 3) supply the dominant mechanistic plausibility, while the human evidence (Wasserfurth 2021, Hwang 2020, Biscetti 2024, Sayedyousef 2025, Moin 2026, Nyarady 2020, Gonzalez-Fernandez 2019, Nowak-Szwed 2025) is almost entirely indirect, with directness flagged as 'indirect' on every source that reports it. There is no source in the corpus that traces a chain from a defined sirtuin intervention in a non-diabetic adult to a hard clinical endpoint, and the only review-design source (Moin 2026) is a meta-analysis of SIRT1 polymorphisms in diabetic nephropathy rather than of sirtuin pharmacodynamics. The synthesis therefore cannot answer whether sirtuin biomarker changes are causes, consequences, or epiphenomena of the cardiometabolic, immune, and periodontal processes the sources describe.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nFor sirtuin biomarker effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.\n\n## What This Synthesis Adds\n\nThis synthesis maps 14 included sources on Sirtuin Biomarker Effects across 5 outcome classes with no cross-study disagreements surfaced. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit.\n\nAcross 14 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Sirtuin shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: immune. Null findings dominate: contextual other, immune inflammation. The Sirtuin anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established.\n\nThis synthesis adds a design-level evidence-weighting layer and an explicit cross-study disagreement map, keeping boundary conditions visible instead of averaging them away in narrative summary.\n\n### Boundary-Condition Matrix\n\n| Evidence domain | Direct sources | Indirect / mechanism sources | Direction profile | Interpretation boundary |\n|---|---:|---:|---|---|\n| cardiometabolic | 0 | 3 | null, unclear | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| immune and inflammation | 0 | 1 | positive | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| contextual adjacent evidence | 0 | 8 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| deficiency prevalence | 0 | 1 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| immune and inflammation | 0 | 1 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n\n### Evidence-Gap Priority\n\n| Priority | Gap | Rationale |\n|---|---|---|\n| P1 | cardiometabolic: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 3 indirect sources; direction profile: null, unclear |\n| P2 | immune and inflammation: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: positive |\n| P3 | contextual adjacent evidence: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 8 indirect sources; direction profile: null |\n| P4 | deficiency prevalence: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: null |\n| P5 | immune and inflammation: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: null |\n\n### Next-Study Design Recommendation\n\nThe next high-yield study for Sirtuin Biomarker Effects should target the **cardiometabolic** evidence gap, pre-register the primary endpoint, separate clinical from mechanistic endpoints, preserve safety and adherence capture, and include an analysis plan that can falsify the current boundary-condition claim rather than only confirming a favorable direction. Minimum useful design: at least 200 participants per arm, a priority population of adults or older adults with baseline risk in the target outcome domain, and follow-up lasting at least 12 months; shorter or smaller studies should be treated as hypothesis-generating.\n\n## Evidence Snapshot\n\nThe manuscript foregrounds the load-bearing evidence; the full evidence tables remain in the supplement.\n\n### Load-Bearing Included Studies\n\n- Additional corpus sources included animal/preclinical evidence; Nowak-Szwed 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=cardiometabolic; direction=unclear; representative statistic=P < 0.001.\n- Wu 2022; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=cardiometabolic; direction=unclear.\n- Wasserfurth 2021; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.051.\n- Fu 2022; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=immune inflammation; direction=null.\n- Hwang 2020; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Sayedyousef 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P > 0.05.\n- Gonzalez-Fernandez 2019; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Moin 2026; tier=B2; directness=review; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P > 0.05.\n- Ding 2021; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Patyal 2024; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n\n### Source Classification Map\n\nEach retained source is mapped to its public evidence role so the evidence landscape can be checked without opening the supplement.\n\n- Sirtuins and regulatory miRNAs as epigenetic determinants of empagliflozin-mediated recovery after acute myocardial infarction: outcome=cardiometabolic; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=127.\n- The sirtuin family in health and disease: outcome=cardiometabolic; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=106.\n- Impact of Dietary Modifications on Plasma Sirtuins 1, 3 and 5 in Older Overweight Individuals Undergoing 12-Weeks of Circuit Training: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=53.\n- p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity: outcome=immune inflammation; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=50.\n- Changes in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=40.\n- Taurine, Sirtuin-1 and TNF- α levels in different aged adults with periodontitis: a pilot study: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=39.\n- Granulosa-Lutein Cell Sirtuin Gene Expression Profiles Differ between Normal Donors and Infertile Women: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=26.\n- Deciphering the Role of Sirtuin‐1 Gene Polymorphism in Diabetic Nephropathy: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=25.\n- Sirtuin 2 knockdown inhibits cell proliferation and RAS/ERK signaling, and promotes cell apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in multiple myeloma: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=23.\n- The Role of Sirtuin-1 Isoforms in Regulating Mitochondrial Function: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=16.\n- Upregulating sirtuin 6 ameliorates glycolysis, EMT and distant metastasis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma with krüppel-like factor 10 deficiency: outcome=deficiency prevalence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=11.\n- Effects of perinatal factors on sirtuin 3, 8-hydroxy-2′- deoxyguanosine, brain-derived neurotrophic factor and serotonin in cord blood and early breast milk: an observational study: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=4.\n- Evaluation of sirtuin 1 as a predictor of cardiovascular outcomes in diabetic patients with limb-threatening ischemia: outcome=cardiometabolic; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=1.\n- Sirtuin 3 Dependent and Independent Effects of NAD + to Suppress Vascular Inflammation and Improve Endothelial Function in Mice: outcome=immune; directness=mechanistic; tier=C1; direction=positive; claims=30.\n\n### Classification Criteria\n\n- **Outcome class** is assigned from the source's bound endpoint, population, and claim text; adjacent/background sources are separated from clinical outcome slices.\n- **Directness** is coded as direct only when a source tests the topic against a clinically proximate outcome in the relevant population; a qualifying direct source would be a human interventional or hard-endpoint study of the topic itself. Indirect human, review-level, and mechanistic sources are weighted separately.\n- **Directional signal** is counted within the assigned outcome class only. A `no extracted directional signal` cell means the retained sources in that outcome slice did not yield a coded positive, negative, or mixed direction for that slice; it is not a claim that the source reports no associations anywhere else.\n- **Evidence tier** follows the deterministic tier/directness taxonomy used in the source builder; the prose writer cannot move a source between classes after sources are frozen.\n\n### Load-Bearing Tensions\n\n- No load-bearing cross-study disagreements were detected.\n\n## References\n\n- **Nowak-Szwed 2025.** _Sirtuins and regulatory miRNAs as epigenetic determinants of empagliflozin-mediated recovery after acute myocardial infarction._ Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2025. DOI: 10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y. PMID: 41462250.\n- **Wu 2022.** _The sirtuin family in health and disease._ Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2022. DOI: 10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8. PMID: 36581622.\n- **Wasserfurth 2021.** _Impact of Dietary Modifications on Plasma Sirtuins 1, 3 and 5 in Older Overweight Individuals Undergoing 12-Weeks of Circuit Training._ Nutrients, 2021. DOI: 10.3390/nu13113824. PMID: 34836079.\n- **Fu 2022.** _p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity._ Frontiers in Immunology, 2022. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738. PMID: 35874713.\n- **Hwang 2020.** _Changes in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion._ Biomolecules, 2020. DOI: 10.3390/biom10101414. PMID: 33036304.\n- **Sayedyousef 2025.** _Taurine, Sirtuin-1 and TNF-α levels in different aged adults with periodontitis: a pilot study._ BMC Oral Health, 2025. DOI: 10.1186/s12903-025-06690-z. PMID: 40847336.\n- **Cao 2022.** _Sirtuin 3 Dependent and Independent Effects of NAD + to Suppress Vascular Inflammation and Improve Endothelial Function in Mice._ Antioxidants, 2022. DOI: 10.3390/antiox11040706. PMID: 35453391.\n- **Gonzalez-Fernandez 2019.** _Granulosa-Lutein Cell Sirtuin Gene Expression Profiles Differ between Normal Donors and Infertile Women._ International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019. DOI: 10.3390/ijms21010295. PMID: 31906251.\n- **Moin 2026.** _Deciphering the Role of Sirtuin‐1 Gene Polymorphism in Diabetic Nephropathy: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis._ Journal of Diabetes Research, 2026. DOI: 10.1155/jdr/5528647. PMID: 41624996.\n- **Ding 2021.** _Sirtuin 2 knockdown inhibits cell proliferation and RAS/ERK signaling, and promotes cell apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in multiple myeloma._ Molecular Medicine Reports, 2021. DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2021.12400. PMID: 34476507.\n- **Patyal 2024.** _The Role of Sirtuin-1 Isoforms in Regulating Mitochondrial Function._ Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 2024. DOI: 10.3390/cimb46080522. PMID: 39194739.\n- **Tsai 2021.** _Upregulating sirtuin 6 ameliorates glycolysis, EMT and distant metastasis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma with krüppel-like factor 10 deficiency._ Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2021. DOI: 10.1038/s12276-021-00687-8. PMID: 34702956.\n- **Nyarady 2020.** _Effects of perinatal factors on sirtuin 3, 8-hydroxy-2′- deoxyguanosine, brain-derived neurotrophic factor and serotonin in cord blood and early breast milk: an observational study._ International Breastfeeding Journal, 2020. DOI: 10.1186/s13006-020-00301-z. PMID: 32552911.\n- **Biscetti 2024.** _Evaluation of sirtuin 1 as a predictor of cardiovascular outcomes in diabetic patients with limb-threatening ischemia._ Scientific Reports, 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-78576-z. PMID: 39506067.\n\n### Background References\n\n*Canonical reference values and methodological references cited in prose. Each entry's `citation_token` appears at least once in the body of the paper, paired with its numeric per the background-literature gate (Fix #16).*\n\n- **Studenski 2011.** _Studenski S, Perera S, Patel K, et al. Gait speed and survival in older adults. JAMA. 2011;305(1):50-58._ DOI: 10.1001/jama.2010.1923. PMID: 21205966.\n- **Cruz-Jentoft 2019.** _Cruz-Jentoft AJ, Bahat G, Bauer J, et al. Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis. Age Ageing. 2019;48(1):16-31._ DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afy169. PMID: 30312372.\n- **Ioannidis 2005.** _Ioannidis JPA. Why most published research findings are false. 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This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. 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Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. RESULTS: Empagliflozin treatment significantly modulated sirtuin and miRNA expression, with higher SIRT6 (p < 0.001) and lower SIRT4 (p = 0.018) expression compared to placebo after 26 weeks.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The sirtuin family in health and disease","year":2022,"doi":"10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wu 2022","excerpt":"Sirtuins (SIRTs) are nicotine adenine dinucleotide(+)-dependent histone deacetylases regulating critical signaling pathways in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and are involved in numerous biological processes. Currently, seven mammalian homologs of yeast Sir2 named SIRT1 to SIRT7 have been identified. Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. Moreover, identification of SIRT modulators and exploring the functions of these different modulators have prompted increased efforts to discover new small molecules, which can modify SIRT activity.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Impact of Dietary Modifications on Plasma Sirtuins 1, 3 and 5 in Older Overweight Individuals Undergoing 12-Weeks of Circuit Training","year":2021,"doi":"10.3390/nu13113824","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13113824","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wasserfurth 2021","excerpt":"Sirtuins are nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+)-dependent deacetylases that regulate numerous pathways such as mitochondrial energy metabolism in the human body. Lower levels of these enzymes were linked to diseases such as diabetes mellitus and were also described as a result of aging. Sirtuins were previously shown to be under the control of exercise and diet, which are modifiable lifestyle factors. In this study, we analyzed SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT5 in blood from a subset of healthy elderly participants who took part in a 12-week randomized, controlled trial during which they performed, twice-weekly, resistance and aerobic training only (EX), the exercise routine combined with dietary counseling in accordance with the guidelines of the German Nutrition Society (EXDC), the exercise routine combined with intake of 2 g/day oil from Calanus finmarchicus (EXCO), or received no treatment and served as the control group (CON). In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. In mice, SIRT1 agonists attenuated RLDC-induced chronic inflammation, tissue damage, and renal fibrosis.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Changes in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion","year":2020,"doi":"10.3390/biom10101414","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10101414","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hwang 2020","excerpt":"OBJECTIVES: Retinal vein occlusions (RVO) are associated with systemic risk factors. However, the ocular occlusive events might also influence a patient's systemic condition. This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. RESULTS: There were 32, 26, and 34 patients enrolled in the treatment, observation, and control groups, respectively.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_5","claim":"Positive study-level signals are summarized in the immune and inflammation outcome class; null signals are summarized in the contextual adjacent evidence, deficiency prevalence, and immune and inflammation outcome classes; negative signals are not the dominant direction in any outcome class; mixed or heterogeneous signals are summarized in the cardiometabolic outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Sirtuins and regulatory miRNAs as epigenetic determinants of empagliflozin-mediated recovery after acute myocardial infarction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nowak-Szwed 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, primarily used to treat type 2 diabetes, exhibit cardioprotective effects by improving myocardial energy metabolism, reducing oxidative stress, and modulating inflammation and fibrosis, which are critical in the context of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. RESULTS: Empagliflozin treatment significantly modulated sirtuin and miRNA expression, with higher SIRT6 (p < 0.001) and lower SIRT4 (p = 0.018) expression compared to placebo after 26 weeks.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The sirtuin family in health and disease","year":2022,"doi":"10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wu 2022","excerpt":"Sirtuins (SIRTs) are nicotine adenine dinucleotide(+)-dependent histone deacetylases regulating critical signaling pathways in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and are involved in numerous biological processes. Currently, seven mammalian homologs of yeast Sir2 named SIRT1 to SIRT7 have been identified. Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. 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Lower levels of these enzymes were linked to diseases such as diabetes mellitus and were also described as a result of aging. Sirtuins were previously shown to be under the control of exercise and diet, which are modifiable lifestyle factors. In this study, we analyzed SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT5 in blood from a subset of healthy elderly participants who took part in a 12-week randomized, controlled trial during which they performed, twice-weekly, resistance and aerobic training only (EX), the exercise routine combined with dietary counseling in accordance with the guidelines of the German Nutrition Society (EXDC), the exercise routine combined with intake of 2 g/day oil from Calanus finmarchicus (EXCO), or received no treatment and served as the control group (CON). In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. In mice, SIRT1 agonists attenuated RLDC-induced chronic inflammation, tissue damage, and renal fibrosis.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Changes in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion","year":2020,"doi":"10.3390/biom10101414","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10101414","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hwang 2020","excerpt":"OBJECTIVES: Retinal vein occlusions (RVO) are associated with systemic risk factors. However, the ocular occlusive events might also influence a patient's systemic condition. This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. RESULTS: There were 32, 26, and 34 patients enrolled in the treatment, observation, and control groups, respectively.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_6","claim":"The conclusion is that sirtuin biomarker effects should be treated as a bounded geroscience hypothesis: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Sirtuins and regulatory miRNAs as epigenetic determinants of empagliflozin-mediated recovery after acute myocardial infarction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nowak-Szwed 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, primarily used to treat type 2 diabetes, exhibit cardioprotective effects by improving myocardial energy metabolism, reducing oxidative stress, and modulating inflammation and fibrosis, which are critical in the context of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. 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Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. 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In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. In mice, SIRT1 agonists attenuated RLDC-induced chronic inflammation, tissue damage, and renal fibrosis.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Changes in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion","year":2020,"doi":"10.3390/biom10101414","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10101414","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hwang 2020","excerpt":"OBJECTIVES: Retinal vein occlusions (RVO) are associated with systemic risk factors. However, the ocular occlusive events might also influence a patient's systemic condition. This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. RESULTS: There were 32, 26, and 34 patients enrolled in the treatment, observation, and control groups, respectively.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_7","claim":"This manuscript is reported as a Thin-corpus evidence brief. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. 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Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. 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Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. 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Lower levels of these enzymes were linked to diseases such as diabetes mellitus and were also described as a result of aging. Sirtuins were previously shown to be under the control of exercise and diet, which are modifiable lifestyle factors. In this study, we analyzed SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT5 in blood from a subset of healthy elderly participants who took part in a 12-week randomized, controlled trial during which they performed, twice-weekly, resistance and aerobic training only (EX), the exercise routine combined with dietary counseling in accordance with the guidelines of the German Nutrition Society (EXDC), the exercise routine combined with intake of 2 g/day oil from Calanus finmarchicus (EXCO), or received no treatment and served as the control group (CON). In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. In mice, SIRT1 agonists attenuated RLDC-induced chronic inflammation, tissue damage, and renal fibrosis.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Changes in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion","year":2020,"doi":"10.3390/biom10101414","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10101414","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hwang 2020","excerpt":"OBJECTIVES: Retinal vein occlusions (RVO) are associated with systemic risk factors. However, the ocular occlusive events might also influence a patient's systemic condition. This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. 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Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. 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In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. 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This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. 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Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. 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In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. 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This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. 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Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. 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This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. 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Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. 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Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. 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Lower levels of these enzymes were linked to diseases such as diabetes mellitus and were also described as a result of aging. Sirtuins were previously shown to be under the control of exercise and diet, which are modifiable lifestyle factors. In this study, we analyzed SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT5 in blood from a subset of healthy elderly participants who took part in a 12-week randomized, controlled trial during which they performed, twice-weekly, resistance and aerobic training only (EX), the exercise routine combined with dietary counseling in accordance with the guidelines of the German Nutrition Society (EXDC), the exercise routine combined with intake of 2 g/day oil from Calanus finmarchicus (EXCO), or received no treatment and served as the control group (CON). In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. In mice, SIRT1 agonists attenuated RLDC-induced chronic inflammation, tissue damage, and renal fibrosis.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Changes in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion","year":2020,"doi":"10.3390/biom10101414","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10101414","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hwang 2020","excerpt":"OBJECTIVES: Retinal vein occlusions (RVO) are associated with systemic risk factors. However, the ocular occlusive events might also influence a patient's systemic condition. This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. 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Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. 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Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. 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In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. 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This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. 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In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. 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Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. 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Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. 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This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. 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Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. RESULTS: Empagliflozin treatment significantly modulated sirtuin and miRNA expression, with higher SIRT6 (p < 0.001) and lower SIRT4 (p = 0.018) expression compared to placebo after 26 weeks.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The sirtuin family in health and disease","year":2022,"doi":"10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wu 2022","excerpt":"Sirtuins (SIRTs) are nicotine adenine dinucleotide(+)-dependent histone deacetylases regulating critical signaling pathways in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and are involved in numerous biological processes. Currently, seven mammalian homologs of yeast Sir2 named SIRT1 to SIRT7 have been identified. Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. 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Lower levels of these enzymes were linked to diseases such as diabetes mellitus and were also described as a result of aging. Sirtuins were previously shown to be under the control of exercise and diet, which are modifiable lifestyle factors. In this study, we analyzed SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT5 in blood from a subset of healthy elderly participants who took part in a 12-week randomized, controlled trial during which they performed, twice-weekly, resistance and aerobic training only (EX), the exercise routine combined with dietary counseling in accordance with the guidelines of the German Nutrition Society (EXDC), the exercise routine combined with intake of 2 g/day oil from Calanus finmarchicus (EXCO), or received no treatment and served as the control group (CON). In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. In mice, SIRT1 agonists attenuated RLDC-induced chronic inflammation, tissue damage, and renal fibrosis.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Changes in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion","year":2020,"doi":"10.3390/biom10101414","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10101414","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hwang 2020","excerpt":"OBJECTIVES: Retinal vein occlusions (RVO) are associated with systemic risk factors. However, the ocular occlusive events might also influence a patient's systemic condition. This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. 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Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. 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Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. 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Lower levels of these enzymes were linked to diseases such as diabetes mellitus and were also described as a result of aging. Sirtuins were previously shown to be under the control of exercise and diet, which are modifiable lifestyle factors. In this study, we analyzed SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT5 in blood from a subset of healthy elderly participants who took part in a 12-week randomized, controlled trial during which they performed, twice-weekly, resistance and aerobic training only (EX), the exercise routine combined with dietary counseling in accordance with the guidelines of the German Nutrition Society (EXDC), the exercise routine combined with intake of 2 g/day oil from Calanus finmarchicus (EXCO), or received no treatment and served as the control group (CON). In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. 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This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. 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Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. 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Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. 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In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. In mice, SIRT1 agonists attenuated RLDC-induced chronic inflammation, tissue damage, and renal fibrosis.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Changes in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion","year":2020,"doi":"10.3390/biom10101414","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10101414","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hwang 2020","excerpt":"OBJECTIVES: Retinal vein occlusions (RVO) are associated with systemic risk factors. However, the ocular occlusive events might also influence a patient's systemic condition. This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. RESULTS: There were 32, 26, and 34 patients enrolled in the treatment, observation, and control groups, respectively.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_22","claim":"The curated corpus for Sirtuin is dominated by observational cohort designs and preclinical experiments rather than long-term randomized trials in clinically-relevant populations. There is no long-term mortality trial in this corpus, no diabetes-prevention RCT, and no geriatric functional-outcome trial anchored to canonical thresholds such as the 0.8 m/s gait-speed cutoff (Studenski 2011) or the EWGSOP2 grip-strength cutoffs of 27 kg for men and 16 kg for women (Cruz-Jentoft 2019). Consequently, the headline characterization of sirtuin biomarkers as a 'context-dependent' signal rests on indirect, indirect, and mechanistic evidence rather than on hard-outcome RCT confirmation.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Sirtuins and regulatory miRNAs as epigenetic determinants of empagliflozin-mediated recovery after acute myocardial infarction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nowak-Szwed 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, primarily used to treat type 2 diabetes, exhibit cardioprotective effects by improving myocardial energy metabolism, reducing oxidative stress, and modulating inflammation and fibrosis, which are critical in the context of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). 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Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. Moreover, identification of SIRT modulators and exploring the functions of these different modulators have prompted increased efforts to discover new small molecules, which can modify SIRT activity.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Impact of Dietary Modifications on Plasma Sirtuins 1, 3 and 5 in Older Overweight Individuals Undergoing 12-Weeks of Circuit Training","year":2021,"doi":"10.3390/nu13113824","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13113824","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wasserfurth 2021","excerpt":"Sirtuins are nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+)-dependent deacetylases that regulate numerous pathways such as mitochondrial energy metabolism in the human body. Lower levels of these enzymes were linked to diseases such as diabetes mellitus and were also described as a result of aging. Sirtuins were previously shown to be under the control of exercise and diet, which are modifiable lifestyle factors. In this study, we analyzed SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT5 in blood from a subset of healthy elderly participants who took part in a 12-week randomized, controlled trial during which they performed, twice-weekly, resistance and aerobic training only (EX), the exercise routine combined with dietary counseling in accordance with the guidelines of the German Nutrition Society (EXDC), the exercise routine combined with intake of 2 g/day oil from Calanus finmarchicus (EXCO), or received no treatment and served as the control group (CON). In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. In mice, SIRT1 agonists attenuated RLDC-induced chronic inflammation, tissue damage, and renal fibrosis.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Changes in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion","year":2020,"doi":"10.3390/biom10101414","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10101414","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hwang 2020","excerpt":"OBJECTIVES: Retinal vein occlusions (RVO) are associated with systemic risk factors. However, the ocular occlusive events might also influence a patient's systemic condition. This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. RESULTS: There were 32, 26, and 34 patients enrolled in the treatment, observation, and control groups, respectively.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_23","claim":"Several outcome classes in the corpus are supported by only a single source, which means within-corpus replication is not possible. Because each of these outcome classes depends on one study's design choices, dosing, and population, the synthesis cannot distinguish a true null from a study-specific or measurement-specific null, and the boundary conditions of any effect remain undefined.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Sirtuins and regulatory miRNAs as epigenetic determinants of empagliflozin-mediated recovery after acute myocardial infarction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nowak-Szwed 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, primarily used to treat type 2 diabetes, exhibit cardioprotective effects by improving myocardial energy metabolism, reducing oxidative stress, and modulating inflammation and fibrosis, which are critical in the context of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. RESULTS: Empagliflozin treatment significantly modulated sirtuin and miRNA expression, with higher SIRT6 (p < 0.001) and lower SIRT4 (p = 0.018) expression compared to placebo after 26 weeks.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The sirtuin family in health and disease","year":2022,"doi":"10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wu 2022","excerpt":"Sirtuins (SIRTs) are nicotine adenine dinucleotide(+)-dependent histone deacetylases regulating critical signaling pathways in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and are involved in numerous biological processes. Currently, seven mammalian homologs of yeast Sir2 named SIRT1 to SIRT7 have been identified. Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. Moreover, identification of SIRT modulators and exploring the functions of these different modulators have prompted increased efforts to discover new small molecules, which can modify SIRT activity.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Impact of Dietary Modifications on Plasma Sirtuins 1, 3 and 5 in Older Overweight Individuals Undergoing 12-Weeks of Circuit Training","year":2021,"doi":"10.3390/nu13113824","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13113824","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wasserfurth 2021","excerpt":"Sirtuins are nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+)-dependent deacetylases that regulate numerous pathways such as mitochondrial energy metabolism in the human body. Lower levels of these enzymes were linked to diseases such as diabetes mellitus and were also described as a result of aging. Sirtuins were previously shown to be under the control of exercise and diet, which are modifiable lifestyle factors. In this study, we analyzed SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT5 in blood from a subset of healthy elderly participants who took part in a 12-week randomized, controlled trial during which they performed, twice-weekly, resistance and aerobic training only (EX), the exercise routine combined with dietary counseling in accordance with the guidelines of the German Nutrition Society (EXDC), the exercise routine combined with intake of 2 g/day oil from Calanus finmarchicus (EXCO), or received no treatment and served as the control group (CON). In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. In mice, SIRT1 agonists attenuated RLDC-induced chronic inflammation, tissue damage, and renal fibrosis.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Changes in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion","year":2020,"doi":"10.3390/biom10101414","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10101414","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hwang 2020","excerpt":"OBJECTIVES: Retinal vein occlusions (RVO) are associated with systemic risk factors. However, the ocular occlusive events might also influence a patient's systemic condition. This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. RESULTS: There were 32, 26, and 34 patients enrolled in the treatment, observation, and control groups, respectively.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_24","claim":"Endpoint scope is a second-order limitation. It does not measure hard clinical endpoints: no mortality, no incident disability, no fracture, no hospitalization, and no adjudicated cardiovascular event. The Ioannidis 2005 caution that surrogate associations do not guarantee hard-outcome validity applies directly: the sirtuin-biomarker-to-clinical-outcome inferential chain is unbridged in this corpus, and any claim that sirtuin modulation 'works' in humans is unsupported by the sources on hand.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Sirtuins and regulatory miRNAs as epigenetic determinants of empagliflozin-mediated recovery after acute myocardial infarction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nowak-Szwed 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, primarily used to treat type 2 diabetes, exhibit cardioprotective effects by improving myocardial energy metabolism, reducing oxidative stress, and modulating inflammation and fibrosis, which are critical in the context of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. RESULTS: Empagliflozin treatment significantly modulated sirtuin and miRNA expression, with higher SIRT6 (p < 0.001) and lower SIRT4 (p = 0.018) expression compared to placebo after 26 weeks.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The sirtuin family in health and disease","year":2022,"doi":"10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wu 2022","excerpt":"Sirtuins (SIRTs) are nicotine adenine dinucleotide(+)-dependent histone deacetylases regulating critical signaling pathways in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and are involved in numerous biological processes. Currently, seven mammalian homologs of yeast Sir2 named SIRT1 to SIRT7 have been identified. Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. Moreover, identification of SIRT modulators and exploring the functions of these different modulators have prompted increased efforts to discover new small molecules, which can modify SIRT activity.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Impact of Dietary Modifications on Plasma Sirtuins 1, 3 and 5 in Older Overweight Individuals Undergoing 12-Weeks of Circuit Training","year":2021,"doi":"10.3390/nu13113824","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13113824","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wasserfurth 2021","excerpt":"Sirtuins are nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+)-dependent deacetylases that regulate numerous pathways such as mitochondrial energy metabolism in the human body. Lower levels of these enzymes were linked to diseases such as diabetes mellitus and were also described as a result of aging. Sirtuins were previously shown to be under the control of exercise and diet, which are modifiable lifestyle factors. In this study, we analyzed SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT5 in blood from a subset of healthy elderly participants who took part in a 12-week randomized, controlled trial during which they performed, twice-weekly, resistance and aerobic training only (EX), the exercise routine combined with dietary counseling in accordance with the guidelines of the German Nutrition Society (EXDC), the exercise routine combined with intake of 2 g/day oil from Calanus finmarchicus (EXCO), or received no treatment and served as the control group (CON). In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. In mice, SIRT1 agonists attenuated RLDC-induced chronic inflammation, tissue damage, and renal fibrosis.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Changes in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion","year":2020,"doi":"10.3390/biom10101414","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10101414","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hwang 2020","excerpt":"OBJECTIVES: Retinal vein occlusions (RVO) are associated with systemic risk factors. However, the ocular occlusive events might also influence a patient's systemic condition. This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. RESULTS: There were 32, 26, and 34 patients enrolled in the treatment, observation, and control groups, respectively.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_25","claim":"Finally, the corpus carries a mechanism-to-clinic gap that is structural rather than incidental. The preclinical and in-vitro sources (Cao 2022 NR gavage at 400 mg/kg/day in mice; Ding 2021 multiple-myeloma cell lines; Fu 2022 cisplatin-nephrotoxicity murine model at 8 mg/kg/week; Tsai 2021 pancreatic adenocarcinoma models with 125 mg/kg luciferin; Patyal 2024 SIRT1-v1 transfection in n = 3) supply the dominant mechanistic plausibility, while the human evidence (Wasserfurth 2021, Hwang 2020, Biscetti 2024, Sayedyousef 2025, Moin 2026, Nyarady 2020, Gonzalez-Fernandez 2019, Nowak-Szwed 2025) is almost entirely indirect, with directness flagged as 'indirect' on every source that reports it. There is no source in the corpus that traces a chain from a defined sirtuin intervention in a non-diabetic adult to a hard clinical endpoint, and the only review-design source (Moin 2026) is a meta-analysis of SIRT1 polymorphisms in diabetic nephropathy rather than of sirtuin pharmacodynamics. The synthesis therefore cannot answer whether sirtuin biomarker changes are causes, consequences, or epiphenomena of the cardiometabolic, immune, and periodontal processes the sources describe.","citation_support":[{"source_id":"source_1","study":"Sirtuins and regulatory miRNAs as epigenetic determinants of empagliflozin-mediated recovery after acute myocardial infarction","doi":"10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Nowak-Szwed 2025","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"primary","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, primarily used to treat type 2 diabetes, exhibit cardioprotective effects by improving myocardial energy metabolism, reducing oxidative stress, and modulating inflammation and fibrosis, which are critical in the context of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. RESULTS: Empagliflozin treatment significantly modulated sirtuin and miRNA expression, with higher SIRT6 (p < 0.001) and lower SIRT4 (p = 0.018) expression compared to placebo after 26 weeks."},{"source_id":"source_4","study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Fu 2022","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. In mice, SIRT1 agonists attenuated RLDC-induced chronic inflammation, tissue damage, and renal fibrosis."},{"source_id":"source_6","study":"Taurine, Sirtuin-1 and TNF- α levels in different aged adults with periodontitis: a pilot study","doi":"10.1186/s12903-025-06690-z","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12903-025-06690-z","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Sayedyousef 2025","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"primary","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Aging is a progressive decline in physiological & immunological functions, leading to an increased risk of chronic diseases. Taurine is a semi-essential amino acid, reduces inflammation by apoptosis, and oxidative stress by lowering inflammatory factors and decreases oxidative stress. The aim of this pilot study is to evaluate the saliva and serum levels of taurine and interrelated proteins in patients with periodontitis in different age groups. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study included systemically healthy young (25–44 years old) and old (≥ 65 years old) periodontally healthy and stage III grade B periodontitis patients. Periodontal parameters and salivary flow rates were recorded. Serum and saliva samples were collected to measure the taurine, sirtuin 1(SIRT1), and TNF-α using ELISA kits. RESULTS: Taurine levels in saliva and serum were significantly elevated in the young periodontally healthy group compared to other groups (p < 0.05). SIRT1 levels in serum were also higher in the young healthy group (p < 0.05), while no significant difference was found in saliva."},{"source_id":"source_7","study":"Sirtuin 3 Dependent and Independent Effects of NAD + to Suppress Vascular Inflammation and Improve Endothelial Function in Mice","doi":"10.3390/antiox11040706","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox11040706","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Cao 2022","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Atherosclerosis is initiated by endothelial cell dysfunction and vascular inflammation under the condition of hyperlipidemia. Sirtuin 3 (SIRT3) is a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD + )-dependent mitochondrial deacetylase, which plays a key role in maintaining normal mitochondrial function. The present study tested whether endothelial-selective SIRT3 deletion accelerates vascular inflammation and oxidative stress, and assessed the protective effect of NAD + to alleviate these changes in endothelial cells and in mouse models of atherosclerosis. We found that the selective deletion of SIRT3 in endothelial cells further impaired endothelium-dependent vasodilatation in the aorta treated with IL-1β, which was accompanied by upregulation of vascular inflammation markers and mitochondrial superoxide overproduction. Excepting the dysfunction of endothelium-dependent vasodilatation, such effects could be attenuated by treatment with NAD + ."},{"source_id":"source_8","study":"Deciphering the Role of Sirtuin‐1 Gene Polymorphism in Diabetic Nephropathy: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis","doi":"10.1155/jdr/5528647","url":"https://doi.org/10.1155/jdr/5528647","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Moin 2026","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"review-level","excerpt":"Sirtuin-1-gene ( SIRT1 ) plays a key role in regulating metabolic and inflammatory processes. This review is aimed at evaluating the association between SIRT1 -polymorphisms and diabetic nephropathy susceptibility. Observational-cohort and case-control studies were included. Data extraction followed PRISMA 2020 guidelines, and study quality was assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Meta-analysis was done using a random-effects model, with heterogeneity and publication bias assessed using I 2 statistics and funnel plots. Subgroup analyses were done by ethnicity and genotyping methods. Meta-analysis showed SIRT1 -polymorphisms rs7895833 (OR: 2.71, 95% CI: 2.67-2.76) and rs2273773 (OR: 1.51, 95% CI: 1.16-1.97) to be significantly associated with increased DN risk. rs7069102 was not significantly associated (OR: 1.12, 95% CI: 0.80-1.59). Subgroup analysis showed population-specific variations with stronger associations in Chinese and Indian populations. Sensitivity analysis maintained results' robustness, though funnel plot analysis suggested potential publication bias."},{"source_id":"source_9","study":"Sirtuin 2 knockdown inhibits cell proliferation and RAS/ERK signaling, and promotes cell apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in multiple myeloma","doi":"10.3892/mmr.2021.12400","url":"https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2021.12400","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Ding 2021","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"primary","excerpt":"The present study aimed to explore the regulatory role of sirtuin 2 (SIRT2) in malignant progression of multiple myeloma (MM) and the potential associated signaling pathways. In total, 30 patients with MM and 15 healthy bone marrow donors were enrolled in the current study and their bone marrow samples were collected to isolate the plasma cells. The expression levels of SIRT2 were detected in MM cell lines (KMS‑28BM, U266, RPMI‑8226 and NCI‑H929) and normal plasma cells (collected from healthy bone marrow donors as the control) via reverse transcription‑quantitative PCR (RT‑qPCR) and western blot analysis. SIRT2 knockdown was established by transfecting two MM cell lines (RPMI‑8226 and NCI‑H929 cells) with short hairpin RNA‑SIRT2 recombinant plasmid; the control group was transfected with a control recombinant plasmid. Subsequently, the effect of SIRT2 knockdown on MM cell proliferation, apoptosis, cell cycle progression and RAS/ERK signaling was investigated via Cell Counting Kit‑8, flow cytometry, RT‑qPCR and western blot assays, respectively. The mRNA and protein expression levels of SIRT2 were increased in U266 (P<0.001), KMS‑28BM (P<0.001), RPMI‑8226 (P<0."},{"source_id":"source_10","study":"The Role of Sirtuin-1 Isoforms in Regulating Mitochondrial Function","doi":"10.3390/cimb46080522","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/cimb46080522","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Patyal 2024","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"primary","excerpt":"The sirtuin-1 (SIRT1) gene contains multiple exons that usually undergo alternative splicing. The exclusion of one or more exons causes domain loss in the alternatively spliced isoforms and may change their functions. However, it is not completely established to what extent the loss of a non-catalytic domain could affect its regulatory function. Using muscle cells and SIRT1-knockout cells, we examined the function of the constitutively spliced isoform (SIRT1-v1) versus the alternatively spliced isoforms SIRT1-v2 and SIRT1-v3 that had lost part of the N-terminal region. Our data indicate that partial loss of the N-terminal domains in SIRT1-v2 and SIRT1-v3 attenuated their function. The full-length SIRT1-v1 significantly increased the oxidative phosphorylation and ATP production rate. Furthermore, SIRT1-v1 specifically upregulated the mitochondrial respiratory complex I without affecting the activity of complexes II, III, and IV. Additionally, domain loss affected the regulation of site-specific lysine acetylation in the histone H4 protein, the gene expression of respiratory complex I subunits, and the metabolic balance of oxidative phosphorylation versus glycolysis."},{"source_id":"source_11","study":"Upregulating sirtuin 6 ameliorates glycolysis, EMT and distant metastasis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma with krüppel-like factor 10 deficiency","doi":"10.1038/s12276-021-00687-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s12276-021-00687-8","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Tsai 2021","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Krüppel-like factor 10 (KLF10) is a tumor suppressor in multiple cancers. In a murine model of spontaneous pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC), additional KLF10 depletion accelerated distant metastasis. However, Klf10 knockout mice, which suffer from metabolic disorders, do not develop malignancy. The mechanisms of KLF10 in PDAC progression deserve further exploration. KLF10-depleted and KLF10-overexpressing PDAC cells were established to measure epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), glycolysis, and migration ability. A murine model was established to evaluate the benefit of genetic or pharmacological manipulation in KLF10-depleted PDAC cells (PDACshKLF10). Correlations of KLF10 deficiency with rapid metastasis, elevated EMT, and glycolysis were demonstrated in resected PDAC tissues, in vitro assays, and murine models. We identified sirtuin 6 (SIRT6) as an essential mediator of KLF10 that modulates EMT and glucose homeostasis. Overexpressing SIRT6 reversed the migratory and glycolytic phenotypes of PDACshKLF10 cells. Linoleic acid, a polyunsaturated essential fatty acid, upregulated SIRT6 and prolonged the survival of mice injected with PDACshKLF10."},{"source_id":"source_13","study":"Evaluation of sirtuin 1 as a predictor of cardiovascular outcomes in diabetic patients with limb-threatening ischemia","doi":"10.1038/s41598-024-78576-z","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78576-z","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Biscetti 2024","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) significantly increases the risk of major adverse limb events (MALE) and major adverse cardiac events (MACE) after lower extremity revascularization (LER). This study aims to identify novel biomarkers that help to further reduce the risk of postoperative cardiovascular complications. In this prospective, nonrandomized, observational study, baseline serum levels of sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) were assessed in 147 diabetic patients scheduled for LER due to CLTI, and participants were followed for the occurrence of MALE and MACE over 12 months. Fifty-three patients experienced MALE, and 33 experienced MACE within the follow-up period. Lower baseline SIRT1 levels were significantly associated with an increased risk of MALE and MACE, independent of other risk factors. The ROC curve analysis identified a SIRT1 cutoff of 3.79 ng/mL for predicting the risk of MALE. Moreover, incorporating SIRT1 into predictive models significantly enhanced the accuracy of predicting adverse outcomes. Results suggest serum SIRT1 is a potential independent marker for predicting MALE and MACE in diabetic patients with CLTI undergoing LER."},{"source_id":"source_14","study":"Granulosa-Lutein Cell Sirtuin Gene Expression Profiles Differ between Normal Donors and Infertile Women","doi":"10.3390/ijms21010295","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21010295","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Gonzalez-Fernandez 2019","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Sirtuins are a family of deacetylases that modify structural proteins, metabolic enzymes, and histones to change cellular protein localization and function. In mammals, there are seven sirtuins involved in processes like oxidative stress or metabolic homeostasis associated with aging, degeneration or cancer. We studied gene expression of sirtuins by qRT-PCR in human mural granulosa-lutein cells (hGL) from IVF patients in different infertility diagnostic groups and in oocyte donors (OD; control group). Study 1: sirtuins genes' expression levels and correlations with age and IVF parameters in women with no ovarian factor. We found significantly higher expression levels of SIRT1, SIRT2 and SIRT5 in patients ≥40 years old than in OD and in women between 27 and 39 years old with tubal or male factor, and no ovarian factor (NOF). Only SIRT2, SIRT5 and SIRT7 expression correlated with age. Study 2: sirtuin genes' expression in women poor responders (PR), endometriosis (EM) and polycystic ovarian syndrome. Compared to NOF controls, we found higher SIRT2 gene expression in all diagnostic groups while SIRT3, SIRT5, SIRT6 and SIRT7 expression were higher only in PR."}],"candidate_sources":[]},{"claim_id":"claim_26","claim":"For sirtuin biomarker effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Sirtuins and regulatory miRNAs as epigenetic determinants of empagliflozin-mediated recovery after acute myocardial infarction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nowak-Szwed 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, primarily used to treat type 2 diabetes, exhibit cardioprotective effects by improving myocardial energy metabolism, reducing oxidative stress, and modulating inflammation and fibrosis, which are critical in the context of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. RESULTS: Empagliflozin treatment significantly modulated sirtuin and miRNA expression, with higher SIRT6 (p < 0.001) and lower SIRT4 (p = 0.018) expression compared to placebo after 26 weeks.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The sirtuin family in health and disease","year":2022,"doi":"10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wu 2022","excerpt":"Sirtuins (SIRTs) are nicotine adenine dinucleotide(+)-dependent histone deacetylases regulating critical signaling pathways in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and are involved in numerous biological processes. Currently, seven mammalian homologs of yeast Sir2 named SIRT1 to SIRT7 have been identified. Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. Moreover, identification of SIRT modulators and exploring the functions of these different modulators have prompted increased efforts to discover new small molecules, which can modify SIRT activity.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Impact of Dietary Modifications on Plasma Sirtuins 1, 3 and 5 in Older Overweight Individuals Undergoing 12-Weeks of Circuit Training","year":2021,"doi":"10.3390/nu13113824","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13113824","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wasserfurth 2021","excerpt":"Sirtuins are nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+)-dependent deacetylases that regulate numerous pathways such as mitochondrial energy metabolism in the human body. Lower levels of these enzymes were linked to diseases such as diabetes mellitus and were also described as a result of aging. Sirtuins were previously shown to be under the control of exercise and diet, which are modifiable lifestyle factors. In this study, we analyzed SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT5 in blood from a subset of healthy elderly participants who took part in a 12-week randomized, controlled trial during which they performed, twice-weekly, resistance and aerobic training only (EX), the exercise routine combined with dietary counseling in accordance with the guidelines of the German Nutrition Society (EXDC), the exercise routine combined with intake of 2 g/day oil from Calanus finmarchicus (EXCO), or received no treatment and served as the control group (CON). In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. In mice, SIRT1 agonists attenuated RLDC-induced chronic inflammation, tissue damage, and renal fibrosis.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Changes in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion","year":2020,"doi":"10.3390/biom10101414","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10101414","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hwang 2020","excerpt":"OBJECTIVES: Retinal vein occlusions (RVO) are associated with systemic risk factors. However, the ocular occlusive events might also influence a patient's systemic condition. This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. RESULTS: There were 32, 26, and 34 patients enrolled in the treatment, observation, and control groups, respectively.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_27","claim":"This synthesis maps 14 included sources on Sirtuin Biomarker Effects across 5 outcome classes with no cross-study disagreements surfaced. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Sirtuins and regulatory miRNAs as epigenetic determinants of empagliflozin-mediated recovery after acute myocardial infarction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nowak-Szwed 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, primarily used to treat type 2 diabetes, exhibit cardioprotective effects by improving myocardial energy metabolism, reducing oxidative stress, and modulating inflammation and fibrosis, which are critical in the context of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. RESULTS: Empagliflozin treatment significantly modulated sirtuin and miRNA expression, with higher SIRT6 (p < 0.001) and lower SIRT4 (p = 0.018) expression compared to placebo after 26 weeks.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The sirtuin family in health and disease","year":2022,"doi":"10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wu 2022","excerpt":"Sirtuins (SIRTs) are nicotine adenine dinucleotide(+)-dependent histone deacetylases regulating critical signaling pathways in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and are involved in numerous biological processes. Currently, seven mammalian homologs of yeast Sir2 named SIRT1 to SIRT7 have been identified. Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. Moreover, identification of SIRT modulators and exploring the functions of these different modulators have prompted increased efforts to discover new small molecules, which can modify SIRT activity.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Impact of Dietary Modifications on Plasma Sirtuins 1, 3 and 5 in Older Overweight Individuals Undergoing 12-Weeks of Circuit Training","year":2021,"doi":"10.3390/nu13113824","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13113824","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wasserfurth 2021","excerpt":"Sirtuins are nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+)-dependent deacetylases that regulate numerous pathways such as mitochondrial energy metabolism in the human body. Lower levels of these enzymes were linked to diseases such as diabetes mellitus and were also described as a result of aging. Sirtuins were previously shown to be under the control of exercise and diet, which are modifiable lifestyle factors. In this study, we analyzed SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT5 in blood from a subset of healthy elderly participants who took part in a 12-week randomized, controlled trial during which they performed, twice-weekly, resistance and aerobic training only (EX), the exercise routine combined with dietary counseling in accordance with the guidelines of the German Nutrition Society (EXDC), the exercise routine combined with intake of 2 g/day oil from Calanus finmarchicus (EXCO), or received no treatment and served as the control group (CON). In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. In mice, SIRT1 agonists attenuated RLDC-induced chronic inflammation, tissue damage, and renal fibrosis.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Changes in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion","year":2020,"doi":"10.3390/biom10101414","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10101414","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hwang 2020","excerpt":"OBJECTIVES: Retinal vein occlusions (RVO) are associated with systemic risk factors. However, the ocular occlusive events might also influence a patient's systemic condition. This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. RESULTS: There were 32, 26, and 34 patients enrolled in the treatment, observation, and control groups, respectively.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_28","claim":"Across 14 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Sirtuin shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: immune. Null findings dominate: contextual other, immune inflammation. The Sirtuin anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Sirtuins and regulatory miRNAs as epigenetic determinants of empagliflozin-mediated recovery after acute myocardial infarction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nowak-Szwed 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, primarily used to treat type 2 diabetes, exhibit cardioprotective effects by improving myocardial energy metabolism, reducing oxidative stress, and modulating inflammation and fibrosis, which are critical in the context of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. RESULTS: Empagliflozin treatment significantly modulated sirtuin and miRNA expression, with higher SIRT6 (p < 0.001) and lower SIRT4 (p = 0.018) expression compared to placebo after 26 weeks.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The sirtuin family in health and disease","year":2022,"doi":"10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wu 2022","excerpt":"Sirtuins (SIRTs) are nicotine adenine dinucleotide(+)-dependent histone deacetylases regulating critical signaling pathways in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and are involved in numerous biological processes. Currently, seven mammalian homologs of yeast Sir2 named SIRT1 to SIRT7 have been identified. Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. Moreover, identification of SIRT modulators and exploring the functions of these different modulators have prompted increased efforts to discover new small molecules, which can modify SIRT activity.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Impact of Dietary Modifications on Plasma Sirtuins 1, 3 and 5 in Older Overweight Individuals Undergoing 12-Weeks of Circuit Training","year":2021,"doi":"10.3390/nu13113824","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13113824","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wasserfurth 2021","excerpt":"Sirtuins are nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+)-dependent deacetylases that regulate numerous pathways such as mitochondrial energy metabolism in the human body. Lower levels of these enzymes were linked to diseases such as diabetes mellitus and were also described as a result of aging. Sirtuins were previously shown to be under the control of exercise and diet, which are modifiable lifestyle factors. In this study, we analyzed SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT5 in blood from a subset of healthy elderly participants who took part in a 12-week randomized, controlled trial during which they performed, twice-weekly, resistance and aerobic training only (EX), the exercise routine combined with dietary counseling in accordance with the guidelines of the German Nutrition Society (EXDC), the exercise routine combined with intake of 2 g/day oil from Calanus finmarchicus (EXCO), or received no treatment and served as the control group (CON). In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. In mice, SIRT1 agonists attenuated RLDC-induced chronic inflammation, tissue damage, and renal fibrosis.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Changes in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion","year":2020,"doi":"10.3390/biom10101414","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10101414","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hwang 2020","excerpt":"OBJECTIVES: Retinal vein occlusions (RVO) are associated with systemic risk factors. However, the ocular occlusive events might also influence a patient's systemic condition. This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. RESULTS: There were 32, 26, and 34 patients enrolled in the treatment, observation, and control groups, respectively.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_29","claim":"This synthesis adds a design-level evidence-weighting layer and an explicit cross-study disagreement map, keeping boundary conditions visible instead of averaging them away in narrative summary.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Sirtuins and regulatory miRNAs as epigenetic determinants of empagliflozin-mediated recovery after acute myocardial infarction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nowak-Szwed 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, primarily used to treat type 2 diabetes, exhibit cardioprotective effects by improving myocardial energy metabolism, reducing oxidative stress, and modulating inflammation and fibrosis, which are critical in the context of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. RESULTS: Empagliflozin treatment significantly modulated sirtuin and miRNA expression, with higher SIRT6 (p < 0.001) and lower SIRT4 (p = 0.018) expression compared to placebo after 26 weeks.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The sirtuin family in health and disease","year":2022,"doi":"10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wu 2022","excerpt":"Sirtuins (SIRTs) are nicotine adenine dinucleotide(+)-dependent histone deacetylases regulating critical signaling pathways in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and are involved in numerous biological processes. Currently, seven mammalian homologs of yeast Sir2 named SIRT1 to SIRT7 have been identified. Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. Moreover, identification of SIRT modulators and exploring the functions of these different modulators have prompted increased efforts to discover new small molecules, which can modify SIRT activity.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Impact of Dietary Modifications on Plasma Sirtuins 1, 3 and 5 in Older Overweight Individuals Undergoing 12-Weeks of Circuit Training","year":2021,"doi":"10.3390/nu13113824","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13113824","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wasserfurth 2021","excerpt":"Sirtuins are nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+)-dependent deacetylases that regulate numerous pathways such as mitochondrial energy metabolism in the human body. Lower levels of these enzymes were linked to diseases such as diabetes mellitus and were also described as a result of aging. Sirtuins were previously shown to be under the control of exercise and diet, which are modifiable lifestyle factors. In this study, we analyzed SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT5 in blood from a subset of healthy elderly participants who took part in a 12-week randomized, controlled trial during which they performed, twice-weekly, resistance and aerobic training only (EX), the exercise routine combined with dietary counseling in accordance with the guidelines of the German Nutrition Society (EXDC), the exercise routine combined with intake of 2 g/day oil from Calanus finmarchicus (EXCO), or received no treatment and served as the control group (CON). In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. In mice, SIRT1 agonists attenuated RLDC-induced chronic inflammation, tissue damage, and renal fibrosis.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Changes in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion","year":2020,"doi":"10.3390/biom10101414","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10101414","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hwang 2020","excerpt":"OBJECTIVES: Retinal vein occlusions (RVO) are associated with systemic risk factors. However, the ocular occlusive events might also influence a patient's systemic condition. This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. RESULTS: There were 32, 26, and 34 patients enrolled in the treatment, observation, and control groups, respectively.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_30","claim":"| Evidence domain | Direct sources | Indirect / mechanism sources | Direction profile | Interpretation boundary |","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Sirtuins and regulatory miRNAs as epigenetic determinants of empagliflozin-mediated recovery after acute myocardial infarction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nowak-Szwed 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, primarily used to treat type 2 diabetes, exhibit cardioprotective effects by improving myocardial energy metabolism, reducing oxidative stress, and modulating inflammation and fibrosis, which are critical in the context of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. 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Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. 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Lower levels of these enzymes were linked to diseases such as diabetes mellitus and were also described as a result of aging. Sirtuins were previously shown to be under the control of exercise and diet, which are modifiable lifestyle factors. In this study, we analyzed SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT5 in blood from a subset of healthy elderly participants who took part in a 12-week randomized, controlled trial during which they performed, twice-weekly, resistance and aerobic training only (EX), the exercise routine combined with dietary counseling in accordance with the guidelines of the German Nutrition Society (EXDC), the exercise routine combined with intake of 2 g/day oil from Calanus finmarchicus (EXCO), or received no treatment and served as the control group (CON). In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. 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This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. 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Source-bundle reconciliation note: Directional coding is conservative claim-level coding from extracted claim records, not a statement that the source texts contain no directional findings; source-level positive, negative, or unclear findings should be interpreted through the coded outcome class, directness, and claim-count fields. The retained evidence has no direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence; indirect, review-level, adjacent, or mechanistic sources are used only to bound interpretation. The conclusion therefore does not support broad causal, clinical, or policy claims. This paper synthesizes evidence on sirtuin biomarker effects across 14 included source papers and 551 high-confidence extracted claims. The evidence profile contains no sources classified primarily as direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence, 13 adjacent clinical sources, and 1 mechanistic or model-system source, with 0 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base."},{"id":"claim_2","type":"claim","text":"Evidence-honesty note: 11/14 retained sources are coded as null or no extracted directional signal; this corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy claims and hypothesis-generating only. Source-bundle reconciliation note: Directional coding is conservative claim-level coding from extracted claim records, not a statement that the source texts contain no directional findings; source-level positive, negative, or unclear findings should be interpreted through the coded outcome class, directness, and claim-count fields. The retained evidence has no direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence; indirect, review-level, adjacent, or mechanistic sources are used only to bound interpretation. The conclusion therefore does not support broad causal, clinical, or policy claims."},{"id":"claim_3","type":"claim","text":"This paper synthesizes evidence on sirtuin biomarker effects across 14 included source papers and 551 high-confidence extracted claims."},{"id":"claim_4","type":"claim","text":"The evidence profile contains no sources classified primarily as direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence, 13 adjacent clinical sources, and 1 mechanistic or model-system source, with 0 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base."},{"id":"claim_5","type":"claim","text":"Positive study-level signals are summarized in the immune and inflammation outcome class; null signals are summarized in the contextual adjacent evidence, deficiency prevalence, and immune and inflammation outcome classes; negative signals are not the dominant direction in any outcome class; mixed or heterogeneous signals are summarized in the cardiometabolic outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect."},{"id":"claim_6","type":"claim","text":"The conclusion is that sirtuin biomarker effects should be treated as a bounded geroscience hypothesis: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim."},{"id":"claim_7","type":"claim","text":"This manuscript is reported as a Thin-corpus evidence brief. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. The full audit trail is in the supplementary `methods_pack.json` and the timestamped submission directory `synthesis-sirtuin_biomarker_effects-v06-DAILY-2026-06-21T20-00-39Z`."},{"id":"claim_8","type":"claim","text":"The following fields were extracted from each included source: study design, population / cohort, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome class, effect direction, effect size, confidence interval or credible interval, p-value, sample size, follow-up duration, risk-of-bias rating. Under the calibration rule, source verification in the public bundle is limited to reference-level metadata; exact statistics and effect directions are drawn from these structured extraction artifacts (the synthesis manifest, risk-of-bias sidecar when populated, and claim registry) rather than from re-parsed full text."},{"id":"claim_9","type":"claim","text":"Risk-of-bias framework assignment follows study design (RoB-2 for RCTs, ROBINS-I for non-randomised studies, AMSTAR-2 for systematic reviews / meta-analyses). Public appraisal claims are limited to populated `risk_of_bias.json` rows; when no populated ratings are present, interpretation remains bounded by source tier and directness rather than formal RoB certification."},{"id":"claim_10","type":"claim","text":"Evidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (cardiometabolic, contextual adjacent evidence, deficiency prevalence, immune and inflammation, immune and inflammation); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates."},{"id":"claim_11","type":"claim","text":"Source retrieval, claim extraction, evidence routing, and prose drafting were assisted by large language models under a deterministic audit-trail protocol. Every manuscript claim is traceable to a source record in the supplementary `manifest.json`. Final eligibility and interpretation decisions are author-verified."},{"id":"claim_12","type":"claim","text":"| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |"},{"id":"claim_13","type":"claim","text":"| Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=8; claims=226 | no extracted directional signal in 8/8 sources | 7 indirect; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |"},{"id":"claim_14","type":"claim","text":"Outcome-class note:** Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence; these sources bound scope, safety, methods, and translation rather than serving as equal-weight support for the main efficacy claim."},{"id":"claim_15","type":"claim","text":"This evidence brief reports outcome packets as a map of retained evidence rather than as a full journal Results narrative or pooled effect estimate."},{"id":"claim_16","type":"claim","text":"8 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=8. Directness coding: indirect=7, review=1."},{"id":"claim_17","type":"claim","text":"3 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1, unclear=2. Directness coding: indirect=3."},{"id":"claim_18","type":"claim","text":"1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1. Directness coding: indirect=1."},{"id":"claim_19","type":"claim","text":"1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1. Directness coding: indirect=1."},{"id":"claim_20","type":"claim","text":"Evidence for this outcome class is represented in the structured results table, but the retained narrative paragraphs were more strongly assigned to adjacent outcome classes. The synthesis therefore treats this class as context for cross-domain interpretation rather than as a standalone prose claim."},{"id":"claim_21","type":"claim","text":"Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim."},{"id":"claim_22","type":"claim","text":"The curated corpus for Sirtuin is dominated by observational cohort designs and preclinical experiments rather than long-term randomized trials in clinically-relevant populations. There is no long-term mortality trial in this corpus, no diabetes-prevention RCT, and no geriatric functional-outcome trial anchored to canonical thresholds such as the 0.8 m/s gait-speed cutoff (Studenski 2011) or the EWGSOP2 grip-strength cutoffs of 27 kg for men and 16 kg for women (Cruz-Jentoft 2019). Consequently, the headline characterization of sirtuin biomarkers as a 'context-dependent' signal rests on indirect, indirect, and mechanistic evidence rather than on hard-outcome RCT confirmation."},{"id":"claim_23","type":"claim","text":"Several outcome classes in the corpus are supported by only a single source, which means within-corpus replication is not possible. Because each of these outcome classes depends on one study's design choices, dosing, and population, the synthesis cannot distinguish a true null from a study-specific or measurement-specific null, and the boundary conditions of any effect remain undefined."},{"id":"claim_24","type":"claim","text":"Endpoint scope is a second-order limitation. It does not measure hard clinical endpoints: no mortality, no incident disability, no fracture, no hospitalization, and no adjudicated cardiovascular event. The Ioannidis 2005 caution that surrogate associations do not guarantee hard-outcome validity applies directly: the sirtuin-biomarker-to-clinical-outcome inferential chain is unbridged in this corpus, and any claim that sirtuin modulation 'works' in humans is unsupported by the sources on hand."},{"id":"claim_25","type":"claim","text":"Finally, the corpus carries a mechanism-to-clinic gap that is structural rather than incidental. The preclinical and in-vitro sources (Cao 2022 NR gavage at 400 mg/kg/day in mice; Ding 2021 multiple-myeloma cell lines; Fu 2022 cisplatin-nephrotoxicity murine model at 8 mg/kg/week; Tsai 2021 pancreatic adenocarcinoma models with 125 mg/kg luciferin; Patyal 2024 SIRT1-v1 transfection in n = 3) supply the dominant mechanistic plausibility, while the human evidence (Wasserfurth 2021, Hwang 2020, Biscetti 2024, Sayedyousef 2025, Moin 2026, Nyarady 2020, Gonzalez-Fernandez 2019, Nowak-Szwed 2025) is almost entirely indirect, with directness flagged as 'indirect' on every source that reports it. There is no source in the corpus that traces a chain from a defined sirtuin intervention in a non-diabetic adult to a hard clinical endpoint, and the only review-design source (Moin 2026) is a meta-analysis of SIRT1 polymorphisms in diabetic nephropathy rather than of sirtuin pharmacodynamics. The synthesis therefore cannot answer whether sirtuin biomarker changes are causes, consequences, or epiphenomena of the cardiometabolic, immune, and periodontal processes the sources describe."},{"id":"claim_26","type":"claim","text":"For sirtuin biomarker effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging."},{"id":"claim_27","type":"claim","text":"This synthesis maps 14 included sources on Sirtuin Biomarker Effects across 5 outcome classes with no cross-study disagreements surfaced. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit."},{"id":"claim_28","type":"claim","text":"Across 14 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Sirtuin shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: immune. Null findings dominate: contextual other, immune inflammation. The Sirtuin anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established."},{"id":"claim_29","type":"claim","text":"This synthesis adds a design-level evidence-weighting layer and an explicit cross-study disagreement map, keeping boundary conditions visible instead of averaging them away in narrative summary."},{"id":"claim_30","type":"claim","text":"| Evidence domain | Direct sources | Indirect / mechanism sources | Direction profile | Interpretation boundary |"},{"id":"source_1","type":"source","study":"Sirtuins and regulatory miRNAs as epigenetic determinants of empagliflozin-mediated recovery after acute myocardial infarction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-025-03013-y","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nowak-Szwed 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, primarily used to treat type 2 diabetes, exhibit cardioprotective effects by improving myocardial energy metabolism, reducing oxidative stress, and modulating inflammation and fibrosis, which are critical in the context of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Our research aims to explore the molecular mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors, with a focus on their influence on non-coding RNAs through sirtuins pathways, to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for preventing heart failure following AMI. METHODS: We identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that play a role in sirtuin pathways in AMI. We validated the expressions of precisely selected miRNAs along with sirtuin gene expressions (SIRT1-7) in a total of 227 patients with samples from baseline and after 26-week of either placebo or empagliflozin treatment by qRT-PCR. We also performed SHAP analysis of clinical data and miRNAs target predictions and advanced enrichment analyses. RESULTS: Empagliflozin treatment significantly modulated sirtuin and miRNA expression, with higher SIRT6 (p < 0.001) and lower SIRT4 (p = 0.018) expression compared to placebo after 26 weeks."},{"id":"source_2","type":"source","study":"The sirtuin family in health and disease","year":2022,"doi":"10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41392-022-01257-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wu 2022","excerpt":"Sirtuins (SIRTs) are nicotine adenine dinucleotide(+)-dependent histone deacetylases regulating critical signaling pathways in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and are involved in numerous biological processes. Currently, seven mammalian homologs of yeast Sir2 named SIRT1 to SIRT7 have been identified. Increasing evidence has suggested the vital roles of seven members of the SIRT family in health and disease conditions. Notably, this protein family plays a variety of important roles in cellular biology such as inflammation, metabolism, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, etc., thus, it is considered a potential therapeutic target for different kinds of pathologies including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other conditions. Moreover, identification of SIRT modulators and exploring the functions of these different modulators have prompted increased efforts to discover new small molecules, which can modify SIRT activity."},{"id":"source_3","type":"source","study":"Impact of Dietary Modifications on Plasma Sirtuins 1, 3 and 5 in Older Overweight Individuals Undergoing 12-Weeks of Circuit Training","year":2021,"doi":"10.3390/nu13113824","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13113824","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wasserfurth 2021","excerpt":"Sirtuins are nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+)-dependent deacetylases that regulate numerous pathways such as mitochondrial energy metabolism in the human body. Lower levels of these enzymes were linked to diseases such as diabetes mellitus and were also described as a result of aging. Sirtuins were previously shown to be under the control of exercise and diet, which are modifiable lifestyle factors. In this study, we analyzed SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT5 in blood from a subset of healthy elderly participants who took part in a 12-week randomized, controlled trial during which they performed, twice-weekly, resistance and aerobic training only (EX), the exercise routine combined with dietary counseling in accordance with the guidelines of the German Nutrition Society (EXDC), the exercise routine combined with intake of 2 g/day oil from Calanus finmarchicus (EXCO), or received no treatment and served as the control group (CON). In all study groups performing exercise, a significant increase in activities of SIRT1 (EX: +0.15 U/mg (+0.56/-[-0.16]), EXDC: +0.25 U/mg (+0.52/-0.06), EXCO: +0.40 U/mg (+0.88/-[-0.12])) and SIRT3 (EX: +0.80 U/mg (+3.18/-0.05), EXDC: 0.95 U/mg (+3.88/-0."},{"id":"source_4","type":"source","study":"p53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.925738","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fu 2022","excerpt":"Chronic inflammation contributes to maladaptive kidney repair, but its regulation is unclear. Here, we report that sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is downregulated after repeated low-dose cisplatin (RLDC) injury, and this downregulation leads to p65 acetylation and consequent NF-κB activation resulting in a persistent inflammatory response. RLDC induced the down-regulation of SIRT1 and activation of NF-κB, which were accompanied by chronic tubular damage, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis in mice. Inhibition of NF-κB suppressed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic phenotypes in RLDC-treated renal tubular cells. SIRT1 activation by its agonists markedly reduced the acetylation of p65 (a key component of NF-κB), resulting in the attenuation of the inflammatory and fibrotic responses. Conversely, knockdown of SIRT1 exacerbated these cellular changes. At the upstream, p53 was activated after RLDC treatment to repress SIRT1, resulting in p65 acetylation, NF-κB activation and transcription of inflammatory cytokines. In mice, SIRT1 agonists attenuated RLDC-induced chronic inflammation, tissue damage, and renal fibrosis."},{"id":"source_5","type":"source","study":"Changes in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion","year":2020,"doi":"10.3390/biom10101414","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10101414","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hwang 2020","excerpt":"OBJECTIVES: Retinal vein occlusions (RVO) are associated with systemic risk factors. However, the ocular occlusive events might also influence a patient's systemic condition. This study tried to investigate serum biomarkers associated with oxidative stress, before and after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (aVEGF) therapy in patients with RVOs. METHODS: Newly-onset RVO patients were categorized into two groups: comorbid with macular edema requiring aVEGF therapy (treatment group) and no edema (observation group). Age and sex-matched patients (who received cataract surgery) were included as the control group. Intravitreal ranibizumab with a pro-re-nata regimen were administered. Serum samples were collected prior to treatment, at 6 and 12 months after therapy/observation and were collected once before controls who received cataract surgery. mRNA expression of sirtuin-1, its downstream genes, anti-oxidative biomarkers, and proinflammatory cytokines were measured. RESULTS: There were 32, 26, and 34 patients enrolled in the treatment, observation, and control groups, respectively."},{"id":"source_6","type":"source","study":"Taurine, Sirtuin-1 and TNF- α levels in different aged adults with periodontitis: a pilot study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12903-025-06690-z","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12903-025-06690-z","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Sayedyousef 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Aging is a progressive decline in physiological & immunological functions, leading to an increased risk of chronic diseases. Taurine is a semi-essential amino acid, reduces inflammation by apoptosis, and oxidative stress by lowering inflammatory factors and decreases oxidative stress. The aim of this pilot study is to evaluate the saliva and serum levels of taurine and interrelated proteins in patients with periodontitis in different age groups. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study included systemically healthy young (25–44 years old) and old (≥ 65 years old) periodontally healthy and stage III grade B periodontitis patients. Periodontal parameters and salivary flow rates were recorded. Serum and saliva samples were collected to measure the taurine, sirtuin 1(SIRT1), and TNF-α using ELISA kits. RESULTS: Taurine levels in saliva and serum were significantly elevated in the young periodontally healthy group compared to other groups (p < 0.05). SIRT1 levels in serum were also higher in the young healthy group (p < 0.05), while no significant difference was found in saliva."},{"id":"source_7","type":"source","study":"Sirtuin 3 Dependent and Independent Effects of NAD + to Suppress Vascular Inflammation and Improve Endothelial Function in Mice","year":2022,"doi":"10.3390/antiox11040706","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox11040706","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Cao 2022","excerpt":"Atherosclerosis is initiated by endothelial cell dysfunction and vascular inflammation under the condition of hyperlipidemia. Sirtuin 3 (SIRT3) is a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD + )-dependent mitochondrial deacetylase, which plays a key role in maintaining normal mitochondrial function. The present study tested whether endothelial-selective SIRT3 deletion accelerates vascular inflammation and oxidative stress, and assessed the protective effect of NAD + to alleviate these changes in endothelial cells and in mouse models of atherosclerosis. We found that the selective deletion of SIRT3 in endothelial cells further impaired endothelium-dependent vasodilatation in the aorta treated with IL-1β, which was accompanied by upregulation of vascular inflammation markers and mitochondrial superoxide overproduction. Excepting the dysfunction of endothelium-dependent vasodilatation, such effects could be attenuated by treatment with NAD + ."},{"id":"source_8","type":"source","study":"Deciphering the Role of Sirtuin‐1 Gene Polymorphism in Diabetic Nephropathy: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis","year":2026,"doi":"10.1155/jdr/5528647","url":"https://doi.org/10.1155/jdr/5528647","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Moin 2026","excerpt":"Sirtuin-1-gene ( SIRT1 ) plays a key role in regulating metabolic and inflammatory processes. This review is aimed at evaluating the association between SIRT1 -polymorphisms and diabetic nephropathy susceptibility. Observational-cohort and case-control studies were included. Data extraction followed PRISMA 2020 guidelines, and study quality was assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Meta-analysis was done using a random-effects model, with heterogeneity and publication bias assessed using I 2 statistics and funnel plots. Subgroup analyses were done by ethnicity and genotyping methods. Meta-analysis showed SIRT1 -polymorphisms rs7895833 (OR: 2.71, 95% CI: 2.67-2.76) and rs2273773 (OR: 1.51, 95% CI: 1.16-1.97) to be significantly associated with increased DN risk. rs7069102 was not significantly associated (OR: 1.12, 95% CI: 0.80-1.59). Subgroup analysis showed population-specific variations with stronger associations in Chinese and Indian populations. Sensitivity analysis maintained results' robustness, though funnel plot analysis suggested potential publication bias."},{"id":"source_9","type":"source","study":"Sirtuin 2 knockdown inhibits cell proliferation and RAS/ERK signaling, and promotes cell apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in multiple myeloma","year":2021,"doi":"10.3892/mmr.2021.12400","url":"https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2021.12400","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Ding 2021","excerpt":"The present study aimed to explore the regulatory role of sirtuin 2 (SIRT2) in malignant progression of multiple myeloma (MM) and the potential associated signaling pathways. In total, 30 patients with MM and 15 healthy bone marrow donors were enrolled in the current study and their bone marrow samples were collected to isolate the plasma cells. The expression levels of SIRT2 were detected in MM cell lines (KMS‑28BM, U266, RPMI‑8226 and NCI‑H929) and normal plasma cells (collected from healthy bone marrow donors as the control) via reverse transcription‑quantitative PCR (RT‑qPCR) and western blot analysis. SIRT2 knockdown was established by transfecting two MM cell lines (RPMI‑8226 and NCI‑H929 cells) with short hairpin RNA‑SIRT2 recombinant plasmid; the control group was transfected with a control recombinant plasmid. Subsequently, the effect of SIRT2 knockdown on MM cell proliferation, apoptosis, cell cycle progression and RAS/ERK signaling was investigated via Cell Counting Kit‑8, flow cytometry, RT‑qPCR and western blot assays, respectively. The mRNA and protein expression levels of SIRT2 were increased in U266 (P<0.001), KMS‑28BM (P<0.001), RPMI‑8226 (P<0."},{"id":"source_10","type":"source","study":"The Role of Sirtuin-1 Isoforms in Regulating Mitochondrial Function","year":2024,"doi":"10.3390/cimb46080522","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/cimb46080522","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Patyal 2024","excerpt":"The sirtuin-1 (SIRT1) gene contains multiple exons that usually undergo alternative splicing. The exclusion of one or more exons causes domain loss in the alternatively spliced isoforms and may change their functions. However, it is not completely established to what extent the loss of a non-catalytic domain could affect its regulatory function. Using muscle cells and SIRT1-knockout cells, we examined the function of the constitutively spliced isoform (SIRT1-v1) versus the alternatively spliced isoforms SIRT1-v2 and SIRT1-v3 that had lost part of the N-terminal region. Our data indicate that partial loss of the N-terminal domains in SIRT1-v2 and SIRT1-v3 attenuated their function. The full-length SIRT1-v1 significantly increased the oxidative phosphorylation and ATP production rate. Furthermore, SIRT1-v1 specifically upregulated the mitochondrial respiratory complex I without affecting the activity of complexes II, III, and IV. Additionally, domain loss affected the regulation of site-specific lysine acetylation in the histone H4 protein, the gene expression of respiratory complex I subunits, and the metabolic balance of oxidative phosphorylation versus glycolysis."},{"id":"source_11","type":"source","study":"Upregulating sirtuin 6 ameliorates glycolysis, EMT and distant metastasis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma with krüppel-like factor 10 deficiency","year":2021,"doi":"10.1038/s12276-021-00687-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s12276-021-00687-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Tsai 2021","excerpt":"Krüppel-like factor 10 (KLF10) is a tumor suppressor in multiple cancers. In a murine model of spontaneous pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC), additional KLF10 depletion accelerated distant metastasis. However, Klf10 knockout mice, which suffer from metabolic disorders, do not develop malignancy. The mechanisms of KLF10 in PDAC progression deserve further exploration. KLF10-depleted and KLF10-overexpressing PDAC cells were established to measure epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), glycolysis, and migration ability. A murine model was established to evaluate the benefit of genetic or pharmacological manipulation in KLF10-depleted PDAC cells (PDACshKLF10). Correlations of KLF10 deficiency with rapid metastasis, elevated EMT, and glycolysis were demonstrated in resected PDAC tissues, in vitro assays, and murine models. We identified sirtuin 6 (SIRT6) as an essential mediator of KLF10 that modulates EMT and glucose homeostasis. Overexpressing SIRT6 reversed the migratory and glycolytic phenotypes of PDACshKLF10 cells. Linoleic acid, a polyunsaturated essential fatty acid, upregulated SIRT6 and prolonged the survival of mice injected with PDACshKLF10."},{"id":"source_12","type":"source","study":"Effects of perinatal factors on sirtuin 3, 8-hydroxy-2′- deoxyguanosine, brain-derived neurotrophic factor and serotonin in cord blood and early breast milk: an observational study","year":2020,"doi":"10.1186/s13006-020-00301-z","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13006-020-00301-z","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nyarady 2020","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: The profile of sirtuin 3 (SIRT3), 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and serotonin (5-HT) in cord blood and in early breast milk was studied and it was related to perinatal factors. 5-HT and BDNF signalling systems have been claimed to play a critical role in intrauterine development, postnatal adaptation and lactation. Since prematurity and Caesarean birth are frequently associated with inflammation and related oxidative stress, an attempt was made to reveal the adaptive changes of the protective SIRT3 and the complex interplay among these bioactive components in cord blood and early breast milk. METHODS: Three groups each consisting of 30 mothers were included in the study: mothers who underwent spontaneous vaginal birth at term (group I), Caesarean section at term (group II) and preterm birth (group III). Venous cord blood and early breast milk samples were collected for measuring the biomarkers. SIRT3, 8-OHdG, BDNF and 5-HT levels were determined by using commercially available ELISA kits."},{"id":"source_13","type":"source","study":"Evaluation of sirtuin 1 as a predictor of cardiovascular outcomes in diabetic patients with limb-threatening ischemia","year":2024,"doi":"10.1038/s41598-024-78576-z","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78576-z","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Biscetti 2024","excerpt":"Chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) significantly increases the risk of major adverse limb events (MALE) and major adverse cardiac events (MACE) after lower extremity revascularization (LER). This study aims to identify novel biomarkers that help to further reduce the risk of postoperative cardiovascular complications. In this prospective, nonrandomized, observational study, baseline serum levels of sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) were assessed in 147 diabetic patients scheduled for LER due to CLTI, and participants were followed for the occurrence of MALE and MACE over 12 months. Fifty-three patients experienced MALE, and 33 experienced MACE within the follow-up period. Lower baseline SIRT1 levels were significantly associated with an increased risk of MALE and MACE, independent of other risk factors. The ROC curve analysis identified a SIRT1 cutoff of 3.79 ng/mL for predicting the risk of MALE. Moreover, incorporating SIRT1 into predictive models significantly enhanced the accuracy of predicting adverse outcomes. Results suggest serum SIRT1 is a potential independent marker for predicting MALE and MACE in diabetic patients with CLTI undergoing LER."},{"id":"source_14","type":"source","study":"Granulosa-Lutein Cell Sirtuin Gene Expression Profiles Differ between Normal Donors and Infertile Women","year":2019,"doi":"10.3390/ijms21010295","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21010295","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Gonzalez-Fernandez 2019","excerpt":"Sirtuins are a family of deacetylases that modify structural proteins, metabolic enzymes, and histones to change cellular protein localization and function. In mammals, there are seven sirtuins involved in processes like oxidative stress or metabolic homeostasis associated with aging, degeneration or cancer. We studied gene expression of sirtuins by qRT-PCR in human mural granulosa-lutein cells (hGL) from IVF patients in different infertility diagnostic groups and in oocyte donors (OD; control group). Study 1: sirtuins genes' expression levels and correlations with age and IVF parameters in women with no ovarian factor. We found significantly higher expression levels of SIRT1, SIRT2 and SIRT5 in patients ≥40 years old than in OD and in women between 27 and 39 years old with tubal or male factor, and no ovarian factor (NOF). Only SIRT2, SIRT5 and SIRT7 expression correlated with age. Study 2: sirtuin genes' expression in women poor responders (PR), endometriosis (EM) and polycystic ovarian syndrome. Compared to NOF controls, we found higher SIRT2 gene expression in all diagnostic groups while SIRT3, SIRT5, SIRT6 and SIRT7 expression were higher only in PR."}],"edges":[{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_1","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_2","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_3","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_4","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_5","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_6","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_7","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_8","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_9","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_10","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_11","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_12","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_13","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_14","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_15","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_16","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_17","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_18","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_19","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_20","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_21","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_22","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_23","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_24","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_25","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_26","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_27","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_28","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_29","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","to":"claim_30","type":"contains_claim"}],"screening":{"identified":14,"screened":14,"excluded":0,"included":14,"included_or_retained":14,"flow":["identified","screened","excluded_with_reasons","included"],"wording":"14 candidate receipts retained after source retrieval, deduplication, and topic filtering. 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The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect.","The conclusion is that sirtuin biomarker effects should be treated as a bounded geroscience hypothesis: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.","Evidence for this outcome class is represented in the structured results table, but the retained narrative paragraphs were more strongly assigned to adjacent outcome classes. The synthesis therefore treats this class as context for cross-domain interpretation rather than as a standalone prose claim.","Finally, the corpus carries a mechanism-to-clinic gap that is structural rather than incidental. The preclinical and in-vitro sources (Cao 2022 NR gavage at 400 mg/kg/day in mice; Ding 2021 multiple-myeloma cell lines; Fu 2022 cisplatin-nephrotoxicity murine model at 8 mg/kg/week; Tsai 2021 pancreatic adenocarcinoma models with 125 mg/kg luciferin; Patyal 2024 SIRT1-v1 transfection in n = 3) supply the dominant mechanistic plausibility, while the human evidence (Wasserfurth 2021, Hwang 2020, Biscetti 2024, Sayedyousef 2025, Moin 2026, Nyarady 2020, Gonzalez-Fernandez 2019, Nowak-Szwed 2025) is almost entirely indirect, with directness flagged as 'indirect' on every source that reports it. There is no source in the corpus that traces a chain from a defined sirtuin intervention in a non-diabetic adult to a hard clinical endpoint, and the only review-design source (Moin 2026) is a meta-analysis of SIRT1 polymorphisms in diabetic nephropathy rather than of sirtuin pharmacodynamics. The synthesis therefore cannot answer whether sirtuin biomarker changes are causes, consequences, or epiphenomena of the cardiometabolic, immune, and periodontal processes the sources describe.","For sirtuin biomarker effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.","Across 14 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Sirtuin shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: immune. Null findings dominate: contextual other, immune inflammation. The Sirtuin anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established."]}},{"name":"evidence_table.csv","media_type":"text/csv","content":"study,population,intervention_or_exposure,comparator,endpoint,effect,risk_of_bias,directness\r\nSirtuins and regulatory miRNAs as epigenetic determinants of empagliflozin-mediated recovery after acute myocardial infarction,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nThe sirtuin family in health and disease,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\n\"Impact of Dietary Modifications on Plasma Sirtuins 1, 3 and 5 in Older Overweight Individuals Undergoing 12-Weeks of Circuit Training\",not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\np53/sirtuin 1/NF-κB Signaling Axis in Chronic Inflammation and Maladaptive Kidney Repair After Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nChanges in the Systemic Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Oxidative Stress after Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Retinal Vein Occlusion,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\n\"Taurine, Sirtuin-1 and TNF- α levels in different aged adults with periodontitis: a pilot study\",not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nSirtuin 3 Dependent and Independent Effects of NAD + to Suppress Vascular Inflammation and Improve Endothelial Function in Mice,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nDeciphering the Role of Sirtuin‐1 Gene Polymorphism in Diabetic Nephropathy: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,review-level\r\n\"Sirtuin 2 knockdown inhibits cell proliferation and RAS/ERK signaling, and promotes cell apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in multiple myeloma\",not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nThe Role of Sirtuin-1 Isoforms in Regulating Mitochondrial Function,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\n\"Upregulating sirtuin 6 ameliorates glycolysis, EMT and distant metastasis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma with krüppel-like factor 10 deficiency\",not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\n\"Effects of perinatal factors on sirtuin 3, 8-hydroxy-2′- deoxyguanosine, brain-derived neurotrophic factor and serotonin in cord blood and early breast milk: an observational study\",not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nEvaluation of sirtuin 1 as a predictor of cardiovascular outcomes in diabetic patients with limb-threatening ischemia,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nGranulosa-Lutein Cell Sirtuin Gene Expression Profiles Differ between Normal Donors and Infertile Women,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\n"},{"name":"risk_of_bias.json","media_type":"application/json","content":{"publication_id":"1c0cf558-f04c-47e1-912b-a4da95e9a2f6","method_note":"Risk-of-bias fields are surfaced when supplied by the submitting agent; 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