Role of stress granules and RNA-binding proteins in neurodegeneration: a mini-review.

abstract：:In the present study, we examined the changes that occur with age in anti-idiotype-blocked, hapten-augmentable PFC in the mucosal-associated lymph nodes (MLN and BLN) and spleen of various strains of mice. 2-month-old 129/J, AKR/J, and C57L/J mice had a high percentage of hapten-augmentable PFC in their spleen, MLN, a...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Szewczuk MR,Wade AW

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：: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：:The effect of centrophenixine has been studied on the monovalent electrolyte contents of the brain cortical cells of old female Wistar rats by means of energy dispersive x-ray microanalysis. The drug was administered in form of an intraperitoneal injection of 100 mg/kg body weight for 20 days. The treatment decreased ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Zs-Nagy I,Pieri C,Giuli C,Del Moro M

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:Dementia is a symptom of a variety of specific structural brain diseases as well as several system degenerations. Alzheimer's disease presently is the commonest cause in the developed world, causing a cortical-subcortical degeneration of ascending cholinergic neurons and large pyramidal cells in the cerebral cortex. C...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Plum F

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:Prospective surveillance of nosocomial infection was conducted at seven skilled proprietary nursing facilities in Orange County, Calif., USA. The average incidence of facility-acquired infection was 5.2 infections/1,000 patient days. The most common source of infection was urinary tract (47%), followed by respiratory ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Lee YL,Thrupp LD,Friis RH,Fine M,Maleki P,Cesario TC

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:For logarithmically growing cultures of the human diploid cell lines WI-38 and WI-26, there is an exponential increase in the fraction of cells not incorporating [3H]dT under conditions of continuous labelling. Thymidine uptake, phosphorylation and incorporation into DNA can be correlated with cell proliferation. In a...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Cristofalo VJ

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：:Arterial aging is a cornerstone of organismal aging. The central arterial wall structurally and functionally remodels under chronic proinflammatory stress over a lifetime. The low-grade proinflammation that accompanies advancing age causes arterial wall thickening and stiffening. These structural and functional altera...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Wang M,Monticone RE,Lakatta EG

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Adhesion molecules, such as leukocyte-function-associated antigen (LFA-1 or CD11a/CD18), intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1 or CD54) and Hermes antigen (HCAM or CD44), have important roles in many adhesive interactions involving cells of the immune system. Since it has been shown that many immunological alterat...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Chiricolo M,Morini MC,Mancini R,Beltrandi E,Belletti D,Conte R

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-tryptophan (L-T) was added at a dose of 150-450 mg daily to eight Parkinsonian patients who developed visual hallucinations with paranoidal features under L-dopa (L-D) treatment (112.5-75 mg daily) in combination with alpha-methyldopa hydrazine (12.5-75 mg daily). In six patients L-T ameliorated the symptomatology b...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Rabey JM,Vardi J,Askenazi JJ,Streifler M

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the western world. To prevent what will certainly be a tremendous health and economic burden, effective therapeutics for AMD are urgently needed. To develop these agents in a timely fashion, the molecular pathways that cause disease ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Barnett BP,Handa JT

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Older adults have surprisingly high levels of well-being, which has been referred to as a paradox in the past. Improved emotion regulation has been suggested to underlie these high levels of well-being. Later life is also a period with enhanced exposure to critical life events, and this comes with risks. During such t...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Brose A,Ebner-Priemer UW

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Dual-task-based assessment tests failed to establish a dependable relationship between dual-task-related gait changes and the risk of falls in the elderly. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to examine whether changes in gait while counting backward could be associated with the occurrence of a first fall a...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Beauchet O,Allali G,Annweiler C,Berrut G,Maarouf N,Herrmann FR,Dubost V

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are limited psychological data on the quality of life and activities of daily living among elderly Japanese who live alone. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to examine the frequency of apathy and its correlation with activities of daily living and with subjective well-being in elderly people living...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Yamashita K,Iijima K,Kobayashi S

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rate of lipogenesis and gene expression of lipogenic enzymes in white adipose tissue (WAT) of rats decreases with age. Previously, we showed the inverse relationship between serum leptin concentration and lipogenic enzymes activities in WAT of ageing rats. Based on those results, we postulated that lepti...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Nogalska A,Stelmanska E,Sledzinski T,Swierczynski J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of total exchangeable potassium and total exchangeable sodium, total body water and extracellular fluid volumes were made in 69 patients aged 30-90+ years, using multiple isotope techniques. The patients were not suffering from any chronic disorder or having potassium or diuretic therapy and were consider...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Cox JR,Shalaby WA

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：:Historically, family ties have been understood as the primary source of support for aging adults, and past empirical and theoretical work has highlighted the tendency of older adults to focus on close family. However, in line with demographic changes and historical increases in the diversity of social structures, frie...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Fiori KL,Windsor TD,Huxhold O

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：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：:Phagocytically stimulated canine leukocyte suspensions obtained from 12 young adult and 43 aged individuals were examined for several physiological manifestations of the phagocytically induced respiratory burst. There was considerable variation in levels of oxygen consumption, glucose oxidation via the hexose monophos...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Johnson DD,Renshaw HW,Warner DH,Browder EJ,Williams JD

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of a health survey covering 561 inhabitants of Tampere, Finland, aged 85 or over, morning urine specimens were studied. 82% of the participants were women. Significant bacteriuria was recorded in 27% of the subjects, 13% of the men and 30% of the women. Pyuria was recorded in 47% of the total material. R...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Heinämäki P,Haavisto M,Mattila K,Rajala S

更新日期：1984-01-01 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