Alterations in prostaglandin synthesis during senescence of human lung fibroblasts.

abstract：:The effects of interleukin-1 (IL-1), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on the productions of nitric oxide (NO) and cGMP by cultured articular chondrocyte (AC) monolayers from 1-, 8- and 18-month old male Wistar rats were studied. It was found that basal NO and cGMP productions decre...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Khatib AM,Siegfried G,Messai H,Quintero M,Barbara A,Mitrovic RD

更新日期：1998-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigen-specific antibody secretion in vitro after immunisation with the primary T-cell dependent antigen Helix pomatia Haemocyanin (HPH) was investigated in both young and elderly individuals, who all met the health admission criteria for immunogerontological studies as detailed in the SENIEUR protocol. In additi...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： De Greef GE,Van Staalduinen GJ,Van Doorninck H,Van Tol MJ,Hijmans W

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developments in medicine have led to a significant increase in the average human lifespan. This increase in aging is most readily apparent in the case of HIV where antiretroviral therapy has shifted infection from a terminal to a chronic but manageable disease. Despite this advance, patients suffer from co-morbidities...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Cohen J,D'Agostino L,Tuzer F,Torres C

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation represents the largest study so far published on human DNA damage and aging. The subject of this investigation is damage, determined as DNA alterations which give rise to complete molecular breaks in the course of treatment of purified DNA solutions with single-strand-specific nucleases. The DNA is ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Zahn RK,Reinmüller J,Beyer R,Pondeljak V

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calorie restriction (CR) extends life span and retards many age-related cellular and molecular changes in laboratory rodents. However, neither the breadth of its effects, its underlying mechanisms, nor the limits of its action is fully understood. Expression levels of 588 genes in livers from 3- and 24-month-old ad li...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Han E,Hilsenbeck SG,Richardson A,Nelson JF

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein oxidation, one of a number of brain biomarkers of oxidative stress, is increased in several age-related neurodegenerative disorders or animal models thereof, including Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, prion disorders, such as Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, and alpha-synuclein disorders, such as Parkinson'...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Butterfield DA,Kanski J

更新日期：2001-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Young adult and old mice were immunized by footpad injection of dinitrophenyl-conjugated bovine gamma-globulin (DNP-BGG) in complete Freund's adjuvant. A comparison of lymph node weight and total number of nucleated cells per lymph node as a function of time after antigen injection demonstrated a significantly greater...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Perkins EH,Glover PL

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative damage to macromolecules, including lipids, has been hypothesized as a mechanism of aging. One end product of lipid peroxidation, malondialdehyde (MDA), is often quantified as a measure of oxidative damage to lipids. We used a commercial colorimetric assay for MDA (Bioxytech LPO-586, Oxis International, Port...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Gerhard GS,Kaufmann EJ,Wang X,Erikson KM,Abraham J,Grundy M,Beard JL,Chorney MJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, some of the key findings of the last decade will briefly be surveyed and, where possible, be related to two separate computer simulation models which have been designed to determine the validity of certain widely accepted dogmas and to define the limits and restrictions imposed by attrition of or ambigu...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Strehler BL,Freeman MR

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutral endopeptidase 24.11 (NEP) inhibitors prevent breakdown of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), and may be useful therapeutically, in sodium overload states as often occurs in the aged. However, age-dependent changes in ANP/NEP may limit the activity of these agents in the elderly. To investigate this we conducted...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Greenfeld Z,Engels K,Samsell L,Baylis C

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serotonin content of platelets, serum and plasma from rats of various ages was examined. In male rats, platelet serotonin content, which was about 0.65 nmol/10(8) platelets at young age (6-7 months), increased slightly at middle age (12-14 months) but decreased markedly at old age (25-26 months). Significant diffe...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Yonezawa Y,Kondo H,Nomaguchi TA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional defects that accumulate in the T cell compartment are thought to be responsible for the pronounced immunodeficiency that develops during ageing, and reduced production of T cells by the thymus as it undergoes involution has been suggested to contribute to this phenomenon. Understanding the mechanisms respon...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Montecino-Rodriguez E,Dorshkind K

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymic atrophy or thymus absence causes depressed thyroid-thymus axis (TTA) efficiency in old, young propyl-thiouracil (PTU) (experimental hypothyroidism) and in young-adult thymectomised (Tx) mice, respectively. Altered zinc turnover may be also involved in depressed TTA efficiency. Zinc turnover is under the control...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Mocchegiani E,Giacconi R,Cipriano C,Gasparini N,Orlando F,Stecconi R,Muzzioli M,Isani G,Carpenè E

更新日期：2002-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The general objective of this study was to examine the relationship between oxygen free radicals and the aging process. The rate of superoxide anion radical (O2.-) generation was measured in liver sub-mitochondrial particles from mouse, rat, rabbit, pig and cow, and in flight muscle sub-mitochondrial particles from th...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Sohal RS,Svensson I,Sohal BH,Brunk UT

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It seems to be clear that hepatic age-related HMG-CoA reductase total activation is connected to a rise of reactive oxygen species (ROS). However, the mechanism by which ROS achieve this effect is unknown. Thus, in this work, we have performed a study of HMG-CoAR by analyzing the enzymes involved in its shor...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Pallottini V,Martini C,Cavallini G,Bergamini E,Mustard KJ,Hardie DG,Trentalance A

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA synthesis is a remarkably vulnerable phase in the cell cycle. In addition to introduction of errors during semi-conservative replication, the inherently labile structure of the replication fork, as well as numerous pitfalls encountered in the course of fork progression, make the normally stable double stranded mol...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Ruzankina Y,Asare A,Brown EJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk for developing colorectal cancer increases exponentially with age. We demonstrate that spontaneous loss of folate in the colon results in DNA damage accumulation and aberrant DNA damage responses that may contribute to the increased genomic instability and cancer risk in colon. We find greater than 2-fold cha...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Simon KW,Ma H,Dombkowski AA,Cabelof DC

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alteration of T cell surface marker expression with a decrease of CD3 positive cells relative to the number of CD4 and CD8 positive cells, diminished in vitro proliferative response to mitogenic stimuli like PHA and antibodies to the CD3/Ti complex, and increase in serum IL-2 receptor levels, are among the changes in ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Hallgren HM,Bergh N,Rodysill KJ,O'Leary JJ

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One to 24 month old rats were anesthetized with alpha-chloralose, their cerebral cortices exposed surgically and subjected in vivo to stimulation by norepinephrine (1.0mM for 5 minutes) or electrical pulses (100 pulses/s for 10 s). After microwave fixation, cortical samples were analyzed for cyclic-AMP by the Gilman m...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Berg A,Zimmerman ID

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ageing is a complex multifactorial process that results in many changes in physiological changes processes that ultimately increase susceptibility to a wide range of diseases. As such an ageing population is resulting in a pressing need for more and improved treatments across an assortment of diseases. Such treatments...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Drechsler S,Lynch MA,Novella S,González-Navarro H,Hecimovic S,Barini E,Tucci V,Castro RE,Vandenbroucke RE,Osuchowski M,Potter PK

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic AMP levels and activities of adenylate cyclase and phosphodiesterase in the striatum were measured in 4, 12, 24 and 30 month-old rats. No age-related changes were observed either in cyclic AMP levels or basal adenylate cyclase activity. However, there was an age-related decline in dopamine sensitivity of adenyl...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Puri SK,Volicer L

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein synthesizing capacity of liver parenchymal cells isolated from 3-, 12-, 24-, 31- and 36-month-old rats was determined by the incorporation of 14C-leucine. Conditions for optimum protein synthesis included the use of an enriched medium (modified Waymouth's MB 752/1) and cell suspension concentrations rangin...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Van Bezooijen CF,Grell T,Knook DL

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of inactive enzyme molecules in a variety of tissues and animal species has been shown to be of a general nature. The levels of inactive enzyme molecules found in old animals were produced by amino acid analogs in young animals. These levels have been shown to be initially detrimental but subsequently t...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Gershon D

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of age and chronic propranolol treatment on the agonist-induced rise in intracellular free Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i), an index for the coupling of receptor-second messenger generation, was studied using a dispersed rat submandibular gland preparation. Muscarinic stimulation (10 microns carbachol) caused a rapid (T1/2...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Melvin JE,O'Connell AC,Koek L,Bowen WH

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In a cell culture model of aging we have previously shown that there is an age-related decrease in the lipid dynamics of the proerythropoetic K562 cell membranes, as determined by the generalized polarization (GP) of the phase-sensitive lipid probe 2-dimethylamino-6-lauroylnaphthalene (Laurdan) (T. Parasassi, M. Di St...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Levi M,Wilson P,Nguyen S,Iorio E,Sapora O,Parasassi T

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein carbonyls were studied in aging and exercise by immunoblot followed by one- or two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis using antibodies against 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazones. Proteins of rat kidneys exhibited significant age-related increase in the amount of carbonyl while those of the brain and liver...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Goto S,Nakamura A,Radak Z,Nakamoto H,Takahashi R,Yasuda K,Sakurai Y,Ishii N

更新日期：1999-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress may contribute to the cellular alterations, which occur as the result of aging, and the nervous system is particularly vulnerable to aging associated oxidative injury. The multicatalytic proteasome (MCP) is responsible for the majority of protein degradation and is sensitive to oxidative stress. To de...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Keller JN,Hanni KB,Markesbery WR

更新日期：2000-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first in a series of articles in which we intend to critically review some of the currently used models in gerontology research and evaluate their contribution to advancing our understanding of the phenomenon of senescence. The major theories of aging are considered. We discuss what makes a model useful in...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Gershon H,Gershon D

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressors p16(INK4a) and p53 have been implicated as contributors to age-associated stem cell decline. Key functions of p53 are the induction of cell cycle arrest, senescence, or apoptosis in response to DNA damage. Here, we examine senescence, apoptosis, and DNA damage responses in a mouse accelerated agi...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Hinkal GW,Gatza CE,Parikh N,Donehower LA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social isolation (SI) is a major health risk in older people leading to cognitive decline. This study examined how SI and age influence performance in the novel object recognition (NOR) and elevated plus maze (EPM) tasks in C57BL/6 mice aged 3 or 24 months. Mice were group-housed (groups of 2-3) or isolated for 2 week...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Panossian A,Cave MW,Patel BA,Brooks EL,Flint MS,Yeoman MS

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00