google-site-verification=iUxCUgpoCQNGCS2CQuHi1L8aGqyfkykwcZUHtbSwrts NAD+ Repletion Rescues Female Fertility during Reproductive Aging
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NAD+ Repletion Rescues Female Fertility during Reproductive Aging

Cell Reports

February 11, 2020

Bertoldo, Michael J.

Summary

Reproductive aging in female mammals is an irreversible process associated with declining oocyte quality, which is the rate-limiting factor to fertility. Here, we show that this loss of oocyte quality with age accompanies declining levels of the prominent metabolic cofactor nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). Treatment with the NAD+ metabolic precursor nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) rejuvenates oocyte quality in aged animals, leading to restoration in fertility, and this can be recapitulated by transgenic overexpression of the NAD+-dependent deacylase SIRT2, though deletion of this enzyme does not impair oocyte quality. These benefits of NMN extend to the developing embryo, where supplementation reverses the adverse effect of maternal age on developmental milestones. These findings suggest that late-life restoration of NAD+ levels represents an opportunity to rescue female reproductive function in mammals...Although this study used NMN as an NAD+ precursor, alternative precursors from other pathways also raise NAD+, most notably NR. We anticipate that this and similar compounds will also exhibit efficacy in oocyte quality and fertility, and it is unlikely that these effects are unique to NMN.

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