Binding interactions of ergot alkaloids with monoaminergic receptors in the brain.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recruiting older adults, their family members and their home care workers as participants in research studies is particularly complicated. This might be due to medical or cognitive problems of the older adult as well as the high workload and shortage of time experienced by caregivers. The present study compa...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Green O,Ayalon L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Moderate physical exercise, dietary restriction as well as enriched environment in separate studies have been reported to delay some of the adverse effects of aging on brain function, parallel to an increase in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). In order to elucidate these influences in a com...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Strasser A,Skalicky M,Hansalik M,Viidik A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cognitively stimulating activities contribute to the accumulation of cognitive reserve that is proposed to be instrumental for maintaining cognitive functioning in aging. Adopting a novel, more general conceptual perspective including models of vulnerability, we argue that cognitive reserve may modify the lo...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Ihle A,Rimmele U,Oris M,Maurer J,Kliegel M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences between women and men in terms of gender gaps at late stages of their lives are the focus of this mini-review. We approach the matter by taking up the position of complex yet promising standpoints, the bio-psycho-social perspective on the one hand and approaches of developmental psychology on the other. Li...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Kryspin-Exner I,Lamplmayr E,Felnhofer A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The link between longevity and diet is of great interest to biological and gerontological research. The fact that relevant knowledge has generally been available for many centuries is often not remarked upon. OBJECTIVE:This article examines three aspects of early modern Western medicine which thematize the ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Schafer D

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alloxan diabetes in Swiss mice of both sexes accelerated the ageing of collagen in newly formed cotton pellet granuloma concomitant with its similar effect on dorsal skin. The degree of response of collagen to alloxanization was dependent on the duration of the treatment and the sex of the animal. It is suggested that...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Behera HN,Patnaik BK

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined age- and diet-related alterations in RNA poly(A) tail length using high-resolution gel electrophoresis followed by Northern hybridization. The results demonstrate conclusively that there is no age-related decrease in the size of the Poly(A) tail of RNA isolated from the male Fischer 344 rat. In contrast, o...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Kristal BS,Conrad CC,Richarson A,Yu BP

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Perceived stress may be a modifiable risk factor for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and ultimately dementia, but studies on this topic from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are lacking. OBJECTIVE:We assessed the association between perceived stress and MCI in six LMICs (China, Ghana, India, Mexico,...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Koyanagi A,Oh H,Vancampfort D,Carvalho AF,Veronese N,Stubbs B,Lara E

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, aging is often viewed as a progressive decline in physiological competence with a corresponding inability to adapt to stressful stimulation. Several current theories of aging have implicated the sympathetic nervous system in many of the metabolic, cardiovascular and behavior changes which attend advancing ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： McCarty R

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:In the United States, an increasing proportion of all forms of reactivation tuberculosis occurs in patients over the age of 60 years. Atypical presentations and presence of chronic illness obscure the diagnosis of tuberculosis in the elderly. Prompt diagnosis requires a high index of suspicion and aggressive procedure...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Nagami P,Yoshikawa TT

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of indomethacin (Indo) was studied in 10 healthy elderly male volunteers (age 67-81 years) following the oral administration of a single 75-mg dose of a sustained release form of Indo. The total and free plasma and erythrocyte concentrations of Indo were determined by a specific high-pressure liqu...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Bruguerolle B,Barbeau G,Bélanger PM,Labrecque G

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:Various parameters of copulatory behavior were examined in intact and castrated testosterone-(T-)treated male rats of various ages ranging from 3 to 27 months. Serum T levels were controlled by subcutaneous implantation of different sizes of T-filled Silastic capsules at the time of castration. In intact male rats, sc...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Hsu HK,Hsu C,Yu JY,Peng MT

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have shown that vitamin D status may be relevant for physical and cognitive performance in the older population. This association may be of particular interest to older people at risk for cognitive impairment and functional decline. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to determine the associa...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Gschwind YJ,Bischoff-Ferrari HA,Bridenbaugh SA,Härdi I,Kressig RW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Due to an increase in the percentage of older people in industrialized countries there is an increasing demand for medical care for the elderly. With advancing age, a series of structural, architectural and compositional modifications take place in the vasculature. Therefore, we analyzed the influence of pat...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Kröger K,Strubel G,Poser M,Pratikto T,Renzing-Köhler K,Rudofsky G

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aging changes in different body system are well described, but few studies have considered the relationship between them. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was, therefore, to investigate the interrelationships between markers of aging in different parts of the body. METHODS:A cross-sectional study design...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Aihie Sayer A,Osmond C,Briggs R,Cooper C

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Functional and physiological declines in advancing age may be significant limiting factors in reduced physical activity. Sarcopenia of aging, as a normative process or disease, cannot entirely explain reduced physical activity in the elderly. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of the study was to investigate the relatio...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Carmeli E,Reznick AZ,Coleman R,Carmeli V

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Declines in physical fitness can notably affect healthy aging of older adults. Multimodal exercise training regimen such as mind-body interventions (MBIs) has been reported to mitigate these aging-related declines of physical function. This meta-analytical review aimed at pooling the effects of MBIs on phy...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Ebner SA,Meikis L,Morat M,Held S,Morat T,Donath L

更新日期：2021-01-27 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：:The aim of the study was to examine the characteristics of colorectal cancer in elderly patients. The medical histories of 178 consecutive patients (79 men and 99 women) with colorectal cancer were studied from hospital records. The studied parameters were compared between three age groups: under 65 years old, 65-80 y...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Kemppainen M,Räihä I,Rajala T,Sourander L

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:The concentrations of noradrenaline and adrenaline were studied in specimens of the posterior tibial artery obtained from 18 subjects at postmortem examination. The mean noradrenaline concentration was 167 ng/g artery (range 17-449 ng/g) and the mean adrenaline concentration was 5 ng/g (range 0--21 ng/g). There was no...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Neubauer B,Christensen NJ

更新日期：1978-01-01 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：:Neurofilament accumulation was produced in neuronal perikarya of the lower brain stem nuclei in the hamster brain by inoculating buffy coat from a patient with Alzheimer's disease. The abnormally proliferated neurofilament was characterized by immunostaining and electron microscopy. The intracytoplasmic neurofilament ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Takeda M,Nishimura T,Kudo T,Tanimukai S,Gotow T,Tanabe H,Miki T,Nakamura Y,Niigawa H,Morita H

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The results of the very few histochemical studies that have been performed so far on the lectin-binding profile of normal human epidermis are mostly controversial; thus, the carbohydrate residue composition of the cell surface in the latter still remains in dispute and the possible alterations in the epiderm...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Georgiou S,Pasmatzi E,Monastirli A,Sakkis T,Alachioti S,Tsambaos D

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：:Although it is usually assumed that Lamarckian inheritance does not and cannot occur, molecular mechanisms by which non-mutational changes acquired in one generation can be transmitted to the next are now known. These mechanisms involve changes in chromatin structure, rather than changes in DNA base sequence. It is ar...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Jablonka E,Lamb MJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：: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