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Animals, in particular mice, are often used in aging studies, since they mimic important features of human aging, age quickly, and are easy to manipulate. The present work describes the use of Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy to identify an age-related spectroscopic profile of the cardiac and skeletal muscle tissues of C57BL\/6J female mice. We acquired ATR-FTIR spectra of cardiac and skeletal muscle at four different ages: 6; 12; 17 and 24 months (10 samples at each age) and analyzed the data using multivariate statistical tools (PCA and PLS) and peak intensity analyses. The results suggest deep changes in protein secondary structure in 24-month-old mice compared to both tissues in 6-month-old mice. Oligomeric structures decreased with age in both tissues, while intermolecular \u03b2-sheet structures increased with aging in cardiac muscle but not in skeletal muscle. Despite FTIR spectroscopy being unable to identify the proteins responsible for these conformational changes, this study gives insights into the potential of FTIR to monitor the aging process and identify an age-specific spectroscopic signature.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/molecules26216410","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,24]],"date-time":"2021-10-24T22:07:11Z","timestamp":1635113231000},"page":"6410","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["FTIR Spectroscopy as a Tool to Study Age-Related Changes in Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle of Female C57BL\/6J Mice"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Sandra","family":"Magalh\u00e3es","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"iBiMED, Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Aveiro, Agra do Crasto, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"},{"name":"CICECO, Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0639-0666","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Id\u00e1lia","family":"Almeida","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"iBiMED, Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Aveiro, Agra do Crasto, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3277-1809","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Filipa","family":"Martins","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"iBiMED, Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Aveiro, Agra do Crasto, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"}]},{"given":"F\u00e1tima","family":"Cam\u00f5es","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"iBiMED, Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Aveiro, Agra do Crasto, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4000-7461","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ana R.","family":"Soares","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"iBiMED, Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Aveiro, Agra do Crasto, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Brian J.","family":"Goodfellow","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CICECO, Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5862-5797","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sandra","family":"Rebelo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"iBiMED, Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Aveiro, Agra do Crasto, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0595-5821","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alexandra","family":"Nunes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"iBiMED, Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Aveiro, Agra do Crasto, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"283","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev-animal-022114-110829","article-title":"Animal Models of Aging Research: Implications for Human Aging and Age-Related Diseases","volume":"3","author":"Mitchell","year":"2015","journal-title":"Annu. 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