Deer antlers - a model of mammalian appendage regeneration: an extensive review.

abstract：:The immunocompetence of 22 subjects aged 85-104 years (mean 90 +/- 1 years) was studied and compared to 21 young subjects aged 19-37 years (mean 30 +/- 1 years). The absolute lymphocyte number and the percentage of T and B lymphocytes in the peripheral blood was similar in the two groups. A marked decrease in phytohem...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Licastro F,Tabacchi PL,Chiricolo M,Parente R,Cenci M,Barboni F,Franceschi C

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of malonaldehyde (MDA) was measured in human erythrocytes obtained from subjects suffering from senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT), non-demented elderly subjects, and from young controls by two methods: high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and the thiobarbituric acid (TBA) test. Th...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Bermejo P,Gómez-Serranillos P,Santos J,Pastor E,Gil P,Martín-Aragón S

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paraneoplastic symptoms, caused by a malignancy, but not directly related to invasion by the tumor or its metastases, are the result of a wide variety of tumor-derived biologic mediators like hormones, peptides, antibodies, cytotoxic lymphocytes, autocrine and paracrine mediators. Systemic inflammatory rheumatic disea...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Szekanecz Z,Szekanecz E,Bakó G,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is concern that people living in residential care in Australia make significant and often inappropriate use of acute in-patient hospital services. To date, no factual information has been collected in Australia and its absence may allow myths and negative stereotypes to proliferate. OBJECTIVE:To deter...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Finucane P,Wundke R,Whitehead C,Williamson L,Baggoley C

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that lymphocytes from Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients are hypersensitive to ionising radiation, as revealed by their higher levels of dicentrics than those from age-matched, normal individuals. We have now examined the sensitivity of these cells to N-methyl-N-nitrosourea or methyl methanesul...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Tobi SE,Neary D,Itzhaki RF

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Even though poor lighting at nighttime is an important risk factor for falls (and most falls occur during the night), lighting interventions to improve nightly lighting from bed to bathroom are rarely evaluated for fall prevention. OBJECTIVE:We tested the hypothesis that an automated guiding light would red...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Thölking TW,Lamers ECT,Olde Rikkert MGM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decades, information about the characteristics of attractiveness has accumulated. We know about eight pillars of beauty, among them youthfulness, symmetry, hormone markers and body odor. But what is the biological function of these attractive signals? Is there one common function to be found in all eight...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Oberzaucher E,Grammer K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of age and smoking on pharmacokinetics of pindolol and propranolol was investigated. Although there was a statistically significant difference in certain pharmacokinetic parameters (maximum plasma concentration, area under the curve, elimination constant and elimination half-life) between elderly patient...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Hitzenberger G,Fitscha P,Beveridge T,Nüesch E,Pacha W

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In Germany, there is an ongoing concern about the high prevalence of underweight on admission to health-care institutions. In order to assess possible sex-specific differences, the aim of this study is to provide valid figures about the prevalence and risk factors of underweight of men and women in German nur...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Strube-Lahmann S,Müller-Werdan U,Norman K,Skarabis H,Lahmann NA

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Both ageing and vitamin C (VC) deficiency result in immune defect. Since low serum and tissue levels of VC are found in the elderly, we have in a placebo-controlled study, tested the effect of VC supplements (500 mg/day i.m. for 1 month) on various immune parameters. Indeed, VC enhances the proliferative response of T...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Kennes B,Dumont I,Brohee D,Hubert C,Neve P

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of factors associated with vascular injury on the production of endothelin-1 (ET-1) in cultured porcine aortic endothelial cells. ET-1 mRNA expression and peptide production in endothelial cells were increased by thrombin, transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1), interleukin-1 (IL-1) and ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Maemura K,Kurihara H,Morita T,Oh-hashi Y,Yazaki Y

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen breath testing (HBT) is frequently used as an alternative to small bowel aspiration in the diagnosis of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). The role of the glucose HBT was assessed in 30 elderly patients. A positive HBT was recorded in 15 of 20 SIBO cases and 7 of 10 culture negatives (sensitivity 7...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Mac Mahon M,Gibbons N,Mullins E,O'Moore RR,Keane CT,Walsh JB,Coakley D

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Being able to rise from a chair is an important daily life activity that requires sufficient lower extremity muscle power and postural control. OBJECTIVE:To assess the effects of an individually tailored intervention on the chair rise capacity of active and inactive community-dwelling older men and women. ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Tikkanen P,Lönnroos E,Sipilä S,Nykänen I,Sulkava R,Hartikainen S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age differences in decision-making are of theoretical interest and have important practical implications, but relevant lines of work are distributed across multiple disciplines and often lack integration. The present review proposes an overarching conceptual framework with the aim of connecting disjointed aspects of t...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Löckenhoff CE

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquisition of immunologic self-tolerance by clonal deletion in the thymus is concluded to be a critical process in immune aging and is found to be transiently protected from genetic instability by means of a feedback surveillance which functions at the expense of chronic thymic involution. In the immune control of ma...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Hartwig M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is still a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Recent studies have suggested that even in the developed world its incidence in the elderly is increasing. Symptoms of active tuberculosis are non-specific and less pronounced in the elderly. Radiological features are more likely to be 'atypical...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Packham S

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular system of 30 old asymptomatic patients (average age 62.5 years) was studied by reflection plethysmography. The plethysmogram (PTG) was recorded from the forefinger of the left hand at rest, during two postural tests (+45 degrees arm-up and -45 degrees arm-down), after physical work, and during the infusio...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Strozzi C,Cocco G,Destro A,Padovan G,Abbasciano V,Tosatti S

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this work was to study patients' self-appraisal of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) 6 and 12 months postoperatively, and to establish which factors determine dissatisfaction from surgery. The study group consisted of 79 patients subjected to TKA who underwent rehabilitation in a specialized institution f...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Dickstein R,Heffes Y,Shabtai EI,Markowitz E

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of a single marker that reliably reflects biological aging, or even an exact definition of biological age, compound aging scores that combine multiple aging biomarkers into a single composite aging score can quantitatively reflect the age-related changes over time. If aging is viewed as the broad accumu...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Shamir L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although common among the hospitalized frail elderly, malnutrition is often unrecognized by clinicians, and its identification is fought with difficulty due to inadequate nutritional assessment methods and standards. This study compared the use of percent ideal body weight (%IBW) and anthropometry in the assessment of...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Lansey S,Waslien C,Mulvihill M,Fillit H

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic bacteremia occurred in 68 patients over the age of 60 in a university hospital. These elderly patients were more likely than younger patients to have an underlying malignancy. Anaerobes involved included Bacteroides fragilis group (64 isolates), Bacteroides melaninogenicus group (11) and Clostridium species ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Terpenning MS

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The common cause account suggests that there is a third factor causing aging effects in both sensory and cognitive functioning, hypothesized to be the integrity of the central nervous system [Lindenberger and Baltes; Psychol Aging 1994;9:339-355]. Importantly, the common cause account was developed based on ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Sternäng O,Jonsson B,Wahlin A,Nyberg L,Nilsson LG

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conditioned avoidance response and the cerebral levels of dopamine and noradrenaline have been studied in control rats and in rats submitted to a hypobaric hypoxia. A protection against the effects of hypoxia was induced by both dihydroergocornine (20 microgram/kg) and dihydroergocryptine (100 microgram/kg), and t...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Boismare F,Le Poncin M,Lefrançois J

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer neurofibrillary changes and senile plaques were found in a variety of distribution patterns and intensities in 50 brains of patients older than 73 years who had been carefully examined for signs of organic dementia in a geriatric unit. As noted by earlier observers, the severity of dementia usually correspon...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Ulrich J,Stähelin HB

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of age on the compositional analysis of human Descemet's membrane was examined. Membranes were obtained from human corneas ranging from 0.5 to 95 years and purified by sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) extraction. Substantial age-related changes were obtained in the amino acid compositions of the SDS-insoluble b...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Freeman IL,Vergnes JP,Brown SI

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theophylline kinetics were evaluated in 6 elderly (age 65-75 years) and 5 young (age 22-28 years), nonsmoking males following the oral administration of 200 mg of Elixophylline. Theophylline serum concentration in the postabsorptive phase declined in a monoexponential manner. Total body clearance, elimination half-lif...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Blouin RA,Erwin WG,Foster TS,Scott S

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Walking and other physical activities were studied in a representative population sample of 619 70-year-old people in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. Walking was the most common physical activity declared, and two thirds of those without an obvious disability walked 30 min or more every day. Subjects who took a daily ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Frändin K,Grimby G,Mellström D,Svanborg A

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND BACKGROUND:The aim of the present article is to discuss the potential of gene therapy for thymic hormones as a novel therapeutic strategy to treat dyshomeostatic states associated with athymia, as Di George syndrome, or hypothymic conditions like those associated with AIDS, chronic stress or aging. First ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Goya RG,Cónsole G,Hereñú C,Brown O,Rimoldi OJ

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last 2 decades have brought an explosion of research, new products, and general attention to the problem of urinary urgency, and yet patients continue to be plagued by this symptom - especially the elderly. What is it? What does it mean? How can we guide patients successfully through this challenge? This paper pre...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Potts JM,Payne CK

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taurine (TAU) is thought to be a neuromodulator or an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain. In the periphery, TAU is involved in a wide spectrum of physiological functions. One of the most important putative physiological function of TAU is the modulation of cardiovascular activity including blood pressu...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Wallace DR,Dawson R Jr

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00