Age-Related Differences in the Uncanny Valley Effect.

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：:Age-related changes of muscle fiber and collagen content of the diaphragm (DIA) and rectus abdominis (RA) muscles were examined in rats aged 1, 4, 8 and 18 months. The cross-sectional areas of all muscle fiber types (I, IIa, IIb) and the amount of collagen in both DIA and RA increased up to the age of 8 months after w...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Rodrigues CJ,Rodrigues Júnior AJ,Bohm GM

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Although a relationship between diet and mortality is well recognized, there is little information on the extent to which different food sources contribute to survival in elderly people. OBJECTIVE:To examine the effect of individual food groups on mortality in institutionalized elderly people from Asturias ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： González S,Huerta JM,Fernández S,Patterson AM,Lasheras C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experimental evidence is reviewed which bears on the theory that aging in mammalian cells may be related to a decline in the efficiency of normal DNA repair processes. Although the data are as yet fragmentary, they do suggest that there is an age-associated decline in the capacity of cells to perform at least cert...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Little JB

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：:The age-related accumulation of lipopigments was determined in the adrenergic and nonadrenergic peripheral neurons of the rat using a microspectrofluorometric method and electron microscopy, 3-, 12- and 30-month-old rats were used. The rate of lipopigment accumulation was greater in nonadrenergic than adrenergic neuro...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Koistinaho J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aging may be defined as gradual and progressive changes in an organism that increase the probability of death. Accumulating evidence now indicates that the sum of deleterious free radical reactions going on continuously throughout cells and tissues constitutes the aging process or is a major contributor to i...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Martins Chaves M,Prates Rodrigues AL,Pereira dos Reis A,Gerzstein NC,Nogueira-Machado JA

更新日期：2002-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:Constipation and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) very frequently occur in the elderly, and several reports have suggested that dysfunction in either one of these systems may affect the other. Most studies correlating rectal and bladder dysfunction, however, have been carried out in children or young wome...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Charach G,Greenstein A,Rabinovich P,Groskopf I,Weintraub M

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:100 consecutive endoscopies in elderly patients referred with symptoms after previous gastric surgery are reviewed. 57% showed positive findings, and the procedure was found particularly useful in making definitive diagnoses in patients presenting with dyspepsia and upper gastro-intestinal bleeding. The incidence of g...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Gibbins FJ,Gupta SD,Sen I

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Each year, influenza and its complications account for 10,000-40,000 excess deaths in the United States. Over 80% of these deaths occur among the elderly. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for the US Public Health Service and others recommend that all persons 65 years of age and older as well a...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Nichol KL,Margolis KL,Wouremna J,von Sternberg T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Falls are a major cause of morbidity among older people. Multifaceted interventions may be effective in preventing falls and related fractures. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the cost-effectiveness alongside the REducing Falls with Orthoses and a Multifaceted podiatry intervention (REFORM) trial. METHODS:REFORM was...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Corbacho B,Cockayne S,Fairhurst C,Hewitt CE,Hicks K,Kenan AM,Lamb SE,MacIntosh C,Menz HB,Redmond AC,Rodgers S,Scantlebury A,Watson J,Torgerson DJ,on behalf of the REFORM study.

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：INTRODUCTION:Many falls in older adults occur during walking and result in lateral falls. The ability to perform a recovery step after balance perturbation determines whether a fall will occur. AIM:To investigate age-related changes in first recovery step kinematics and kinematic adaptations over a wide range of later...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Nachmani H,Shani G,Shapiro A,Melzer I

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：BACKGROUND:Lying on the floor for a long time after falls, regardless of whether an injury results, remains an unsolved health care problem. In order to develop efficient and acceptable fall detection and reaction approaches, it is relevant to improve the understanding of the circumstances and the characteristics of po...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Schwickert L,Klenk J,Zijlstra W,Forst-Gill M,Sczuka K,Helbostad JL,Chiari L,Aminian K,Todd C,Becker C

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical evidence for the conjecture that brain weight of mammals is a better predictor of life span than is body weight, is reexamined and evaluated in this paper. The original evidence was that for 63 mammalian species, log brain weight explained 79% of the log life span variance, whereas log body weight explained ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Economos AC

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper critiques Brand and Markowitsch's viewpoint that the decision-making difficulties experienced by older adults during laboratory-based gambling tasks can be attributed to deficits in executive control and feedback operations. While Brand and Markowitsch provide an important platform with which to understand ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： McCarrey AC,Henry JD,Luszcz M

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Creatine phosphokinase (CPK) has been shown to provide the initial ATP for muscle contraction. The effect of wheel running on CPK levels was compared in hindleg and cardiac muscles of young, intermediate-age and old outbred CW-1 and inbred C57BL mice. Short-term (5 weeks) and long-term (over 12 months) regimens were u...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Steinhagen-Thiessen E,Reznick AZ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is not only a disorder of the central nervous system but also affects the skeletal muscle. Subclinical skeletal muscle involvement, manifesting as hyper-creatine-kinase (CK)-emia, is rare. CASE REPORT:The patient, a 60-year-old male, developed progressive dementia, accompanie...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Finsterer J,Gelpi E

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：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：:In three mouse lineages it was found that during the 18- to 60-day interval after formalin fixation, brain weight was inversely proportional to the age at sacrifice, as was the decline in the weight of the brain during this period. In a second study using rat subjects it was confirmed that the aging difference is due ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Douglas RJ,Clark GM,Truncer PC,Treneer CM

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：:We use nerve tissue cultures as a model system for studying the mode of action of centrally acting drugs. Neurons in cerebellar cultures retain a number of organ-specific properties including the formation of complex synaptic networks and characteristic bioelectric activity. Electrical activity may be recorded from Pu...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Gähwiler BH

更新日期：1978-01-01 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：:The effects of ovine corticotropin releasing factor (o-CRF) on the secretions of ACTH, cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S) were studied in the healthy young and elderly male individuals. o-CRF caused significant elevations of plasma ACTH, cortisol and DHEA concentrations...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Ohashi M,Fujio N,Kato K,Nawata H,Ibayashi H

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early emergency readmissions is a common and important problem in the elderly patient. Identification of the risk factors for early emergency readmissions is needed to prevent this occurring. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to study the risk factors for early emergency readmission in the elderly medical...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Chu LW,Pei CK

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00