Protein phosphotransferases from liver of ageing rats.

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：:Sera from 40 elderly individuals ranging in age from 60 to 94 years were tested for the presence of antibodies to varicella-zoster virus (VZV)-specific proteins. Sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis of lysates of VZV-infected BSC-1 cells labeled with either [35S]methionine or [3H]mannose a...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Vafai A,Mahalingam R,Zerbe G,Wellish M,Gilden DH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demented elderly patients unable to eat independently and often refusing food are threatened by malnutrition. Therefore, we determined in 6 female patients aged 74-100 with senile dementia the average daily food consumption within a 3-week period by the exact weighing methods on six occasions. The average daily energy...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Stähelin HB,Hofer HO,Vogel M,Held C,Seiler WO

更新日期：1983-01-01 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:The chronological age is clearly the strongest risk factor for fractures or death. Age as a concept can be described exactly as chronological age. Age in relative terms can be described as biological age. OBJECTIVE:We postulated that, even without taking into account known or unknown comorbidity, an immedia...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Gerdhem P,Ringsberg K,Akesson K,Obrant KJ

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：:Period life expectancy is one of the most used summary indicators for the overall health of a population. Its levels and trends direct health policies, and researchers try to identify the determining risk factors to assess and forecast future developments. The use of period life expectancy is often based on the assump...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Luy M,Di Giulio P,Di Lego V,Lazarevič P,Sauerberg M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The total cholesterol concentration decreases with age in older people. The reasons for this phenomenon are controversial. This study investigated the hypothesis that poor health status is a determinant of the inverse association between age and cholesterol in older persons. METHODS:Cross-sectional study of...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Volpato S,Zuliani G,Guralnik JM,Palmieri E,Fellin R

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malnutrition is a widespread but largely unrecognized problem in aged patients, more so as it is a contributing factor to the increased morbidity and mortality in this age group. Since direct measurements of body composition are not possible in a large number of patients, good anthropometric reference data a...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Bonnefoy M,Jauffret M,Kostka T,Jusot JF

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：:Two kinds of evidence, taken in conjunction, indicate that Orgel's theory is inapplicable to a wide range of disorders of senescence in man. The age dependence and the anatomical distribution of the lesions of such disorders imply a Burnet type 'forbidden clone' theory of ageing. We describe the difficulty of establis...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Burch PR,Jackson D

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The life span of Drosophila melanogaster was reduced when copper compounds were fed at concentrations of 1 X 10(-3) M or greater. Feeding lower concentrations of copper compounds failed to significantly change life span. A combination of copper gluconate and gluconic acid increased the adult life span by 21.6%. We con...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Massie HR,Williams TR,Aiello VR

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depressed mood may either precede mobility limitation or follow from mobility limitation. OBJECTIVE:To compare mood status among people with manifest mobility limitation, those with preclinical mobility limitation and those without mobility limitation and investigate factors explaining the association betwe...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Hirvensalo M,Sakari-Rantala R,Kallinen M,Leinonen R,Lintunen T,Rantanen T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because the body composition effects of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) are opposite to those of advancing age, it has been hypothesized that the decreased activity of the growth hormone-IGF-I axis is partly responsible for the loss of bone and muscle mass that characterizes normal human aging....

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Boonen S,Lesaffre E,Aerssens J,Pelemans W,Dequeker J,Bouillon R

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mild-to-moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD G3a) is prevalent in older adults. Substantial evidence suggests that individuals with advanced CKD face a high risk for common geriatric conditions, like functional impairment and cognitive decline, whereas the relationships between mild-to-moderate CKD and funct...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： König M,Gollasch M,Spira D,Buchmann N,Hopfenmüller W,Steinhagen-Thiessen E,Demuth I

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcopenia is a complex and multifactorial disease that includes a decrease in the number, structure and physiology of muscle fibers, and age-related muscle mass loss, and is associated with loss of strength, increased frailty, and increased risk for fractures and falls. Treatment options are suboptimal and consist of...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Naranjo JD,Dziki JL,Badylak SF

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between carotid blood flow measured by Doppler spectrum analysis and brain atrophy on computed tomography (CT) was studied in 22 subjects with multiple lacunar cerebral infarctions. The subjects were divided into two groups, 7 patients with multi-infarct dementia (MID) (mean age 73 years) and 15 nondement...

journal_title：Gerontology

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

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of aortic stenosis is nearly 20% in octogenarians. Aortic valve replacement (AVR) is the optimal therapy choice, yet many symptomatic patients are denied this beneficent technology. Whether mechanical or bioprosthetic, aortic valves are not a scarce resource and their safety, effectiveness and...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Bramstedt KA

更新日期：2003-01-01 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:In Japan, vascular dementia (VD) has been responsible for the majority of all dementia cases in both epidemiological and neuropathological studies. Recently, however, several epidemiological investigations have shown that the rate of VD has decreased and senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) is now th...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Seno H,Ishino H,Inagaki T,Iijima M,Kaku K,Inata T

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging is associated with a decline in renal concentrating ability in response to dehydration-induced arginine vasopressin (AVP) release. To examine target tissue sensitivity, cortical collecting tubules (CCT) were individually microdissected from young (3 months), middle-aged (2-3 years) and old (4-5.5 years) rabbits ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Wilson PD,Dillingham MA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging is a complex biological phenomenon which involves progressive loss of different physiological functions of various tissues of living organisms. It is the inevitable fate of life and is a major risk factor for death and different pathological disorders. Based on a wide variety of studies performed in humans as we...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Chakravarti B,Chakravarti DN

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：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：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

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：AIM:To investigate acceptance and usage issues in relation to Telehealth products as used by frail older clients of the Transition Care Program and their carers. METHOD:The study design was a quasi-randomised controlled clinical trial. A stratified random sample of participants was allocated to one of five groups usin...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Wade R,Shaw K,Cartwright C

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we asked whether the increased production of two proinflammatory cytokines-tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF alpha) and interleukin-6 (IL6) in the absence of the inflammatory stimulus, a phenomenon frequently occurring in the elderly, may contribute to the decrease of natural killer (NK) cytotoxic activit...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Myśliwska J,Bryl E,Zorena K,Balon J,Foerster J,Myśliwski A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reference values are usually defined based on blood samples from healthy men or nonpregnant women in the age range of 20-50 years. These values are not optimal for elderly patients, as many biological markers change over time and adequate reference values are important for correct clinical decisions. OBJECT...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Carlsson L,Lind L,Larsson A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult stem cells in mammalian organs play pivotal roles in the maintenance and repair of these organs throughout the life of the adult and maintain the proper homeostasis of a tissue or organ. Among the adult stem cells described to date, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are highlighted for clinical applications because ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Yu KR,Kang KS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00