Malignancies in autoimmune rheumatic diseases - a mini-review.

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：:The maximal glucocorticoid responsiveness and the adaptation degree are reduced in old rat liver as demonstrated by cortisol stimulation of RNA polymerases. Nevertheless the concentration of unoccupied 3H-dexamethasone binding sites in molybdate-stabilized cytosol of adrenalectomized old animals is significantly incre...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Martin H,Martin R

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:Mental healthcare of elderly people is a common problem in advanced countries. Recently, high technology has developed robots for use not only in factories but also for our living environment. In particular, human-interactive robots for psychological enrichment, which provide services by interacting with humans while ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Shibata T,Wada K

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:The rates of collagen fibril formation are, under otherwise identical conditions, a function of the age of the acid-soluble rat tail tendon collagen utilized. The rate is most rapid with young adult (165 day) collagen, which exhibits no induction period before collagen multimerization begins. In contrast, 21-day colla...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Brooks C,Simons ER

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of long-term cigarette smoking on regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were studied in 67 normal male volunteers. All subjects were healthy volunteers without any past history of cerebral and pulmonary disease. rCBF decreased significantly with advancing age. Although there was no significant difference in ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Yamashita K,Kobayashi S,Yamaguchi S,Kitani M,Tsunematsu T

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A morphometric analysis of neuronal loss during normal aging was performed in the nucleus basalis Meynert complex of the basal forebrain (Nbm) (nucleus septi medialis, nucleus of Broca's diagonal band, nucleus basalis) and the ciliary ganglion, a peripheral cholinergic structure, in patients free of neurological and p...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Bigl V,Arendt T,Fischer S,Fischer S,Werner M,Arendt A

更新日期：1987-01-01 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:C-reactive protein (CRP), a nonspecific marker of the inflammatory status, is associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors and may be an important feature of the metabolic syndrome (MSX) in middle-aged subjects. OBJECTIVES:We assessed the relationship of CRP levels to specific components of MSX and o...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Dupuy AM,Jaussent I,Lacroux A,Durant R,Cristol JP,Delcourt C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health care providers often believe that individuals with cognitive disturbance are unaware of their deficits. The term unawareness was first used to describe hemiplegia following right hemisphere stroke but has since been applied to unawareness of any neurological or neuropsychological deficit. Clinicians u...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： McDougall GJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectrum of aldimine cross-link bonds of skin collagen is dependent on the localization of the examined material. In correlation to this, there is no synchronous behaviour of cross-linkage in the aging process. The age-dependent decrease of HLNL and the increase of DHLNL in the collagen of tail tendon is only unsu...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Ruiz-Torres A

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Form birefringence curves and linear dichroic properties of aging rat tendons are different from those of adult controls. The steepness of the form birefringence curves and the increased retardations found in aging tendons are ascribed to an increase in collagen aggregation accompanied by loss of tissue water. Based o...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Mello ML,Vidal BC,de Carvalho AC,Caseiro-Filho AC

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:The specific activities of NAD-linked isocitric dehydrogenase were determined in hypothalamus, cerebellum, pons and medulla, striatum, midbrain, and cerebral cortex (which included the hippocampus) of the female Wistar rat. In ageing the specific activities of this enzyme were decreased in all regions. Chronic treatme...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Lai JC,Leung TK,Lim L

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many studies have demonstrated an inverse relationship between gait performance and cognitive impairment. The main purposes of this study were: (1) to design and validate a complex gait test (CGT) in older people, (2) to analyze the effects of age and sex on CGT, and (3) to analyze the association between CG...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Latorre Román PÁ,Muñoz Jiménez M,Salas Sánchez J,Consuegra González P,Moreno Del Castillo R,Herrador Sánchez JA,López Ivanco MDA,Linares Jiménez C,Navas Morales JF,Párraga Montilla JA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac surgery is widely believed to be an excessively high-risk intervention for very elderly patients with coronary artery or valvular disease. However, as life expectancy and the prospect of sustained quality of life into older age increase, this assumption should be challenged so that surgery is not den...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Guilfoyle MR,Drain AJ,Khan A,Ferguson J,Large SR,Nashef SA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brief review is given of the use of fluoride, mithramycin, glucagon, actinomycin D, calcitonins and diphosphonates for treatment of Paget's disease of bone. The decision regarding treatment, effectiveness of the drugs, the incidence of side effects and assessment of clinical, biochemical, histological, radiological ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Chakravorty NK

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic, endocrine and biochemical variables of female hamsters were studied to define age-related alterations in their characteristics. Endurance performance, aerobic capacity and metabolic fuels and hormones were measured and compared in young-adult (2-3 months) and old (16-17 months) hamsters to determine if the ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Nichols JF,Borer KT

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The chronic stress of providing care for a spouse suffering from Alzheimer's disease has been associated with an increased risk for coronary artery disease and overall mortality. Procoagulant changes are kindled by mental stress, and they are prospectively associated with atherothrombotic events. OBJECTIVE:...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： von Kanel R,Dimsdale JE,Adler KA,Patterson TL,Mills PJ,Grant I

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although white matter changes visible with MRI are generally considered to result from ischemia, it has become clear that these changes also appear in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, their significance in AD is unknown. OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the clinical significance of white matter change...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Kono I,Mori S,Nakajima K,Nakagawa M,Watanabe Y,Kizu O,Yamada K,Sakai Y

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The identification of modifiable health span-promoting factors is a public health priority. OBJECTIVE:To explore the socio-environmental, lifestyle, behavioural, and psychological determinants of a clinical phenotypic measure of biological ageing in the Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Study (SLAS) cohort. ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Ng TP,Zhong X,Gao Q,Gwee X,Chua DQL,Larbi A

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A trypsin-type protease was purified to enzymatic homogeneity from human umbilical vein endothelial cells by sequential affinity chromatographies. The enzyme specifically hydrolyzed dibasic substrates with leucine at the P3 positions, but scarcely hydrolyzed the other substrates tested. The enzyme was strongly inhibit...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Kido H,Takeda M,Wakabayashi H,Tanaka S,Nishimura N,Takenaka M,Okada M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adults aged 65 years and older stand to benefit from the accumulating wealth of Internet-based health resources, including online interventions to assist in the self-management of chronic health conditions. However, concerns have been expressed that lesser Internet use and familiarity among older adults may ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Crabb RM,Rafie S,Weingardt KR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms underlying the decreased febrile response in the elderly have not been elucidated. One hypothesis is that elderly persons have a decreased response at the hypothalamic or peripheral effector level to endogenous pyrogen (EP). We studied the response to human monocyte-derived EP in young adult and aged Fische...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Tocco-Bradley R,Singer R,Kluger MJ,Kauffman CA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New neurons are continuously generated and added to neural circuits in the adult brain. However, increasing age imposes changes in neural progenitor cells and their microenvironment that lead to a reduction of neurogenesis. Age-related decreased production of new neurons in the neurogenic dentate gyrus has been associ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Seib DR,Martin-Villalba A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The oral cavity is a reservoir for colonization and infection of systemic organs by pathogenic bacteria. It is understood that aging, tooth eruption, hormonal changes, active disease, oral hygiene, and other factors have an influence on biofilm formation and bacterial accumulation in the oral cavity. OBJECT...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Senpuku H,Sogame A,Inoshita E,Tsuha Y,Miyazaki H,Hanada N

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary intake, sunlight exposure and 25-hydroxy-vitamin D levels were estimated in 62 patients admitted to a geriatric assessment unit. There was a significant correlation between vitamin D intake and 25-hydroxy-vitamin D levels but none between sunlight exposure and these. This suggests that in old age dietary defic...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Nayal AS,MacLennan WJ,Hamilton JC,Rose P,Kong M

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some authors have hypothesised that life expectancy at birth could reach 100 years in developed countries in the next decades. Using recent data for French women, it is shown that life expectancy changes from 1993 to 2016 are mainly linked to mortality rates of oldest women. In recent years, it happened that life expe...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Le Bourg E

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that ultrastructural changes accompany ageing in the human fetal lung fibroblast strain MRC-5. In order to further characterise these changes a method has been devised to prepare subcellular fractions from MRC-5 fibroblasts using a discontinous gradient of metrizamide preceded by a low-speed centrifugati...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Shakespeare VA,Buchanan JH

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00