Does ageing affect zinc homeostasis and dietary requirements?

Fairweather-Tait, Susan J ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1413-5569, Harvey, Linda J and Ford, Dianne (2008) Does ageing affect zinc homeostasis and dietary requirements? Experimental Gerontology, 43 (5). pp. 382-388. ISSN 0531-5565

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Abstract

Dietary intakes of zinc are lower in the elderly because of reduced energy requirements, and it is not clear whether ageing impacts on adaptive homeostatic mechanisms, namely absorptive efficiency and endogenous losses in the GI tract. Physiological requirements for zinc are unlikely to change significantly, but there are several attributes of ageing that may affect aspects of zinc metabolism (e.g. changes in gut structure and function, disease states, chronic inflammation, epigenetic changes in genes that express zinc-related proteins and drug regimens) that are worthy of further investigation. There is, as yet, no information on the effects of ageing on zinc transporters, and there are no sensitive and specific measures of zinc status, therefore dietary recommendations for zinc have been derived from factorial calculations using information on zinc absorption and loss, and estimates of dietary bioavailability.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	aging,biological markers,carrier proteins,homeostasis,humans,nutritional requirements,zinc
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Nutrition and Preventive Medicine Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Musculoskeletal Medicine Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Lifespan Health
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	25 Nov 2010 11:09
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2023 00:43
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/12569
DOI:	10.1016/j.exger.2007.10.015

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