abstract：:The development and aging of the nucleolus and nucleus in layer V pyramidal cells in the hamster cerebrum were studied by light and electron microscopy. The nucleoli appeared in the newborn as occasional fibrillar masses adjacent to peripherally placed bodies of chromatin. By maturity, a single, generally central, nuc...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Buschmann MB,LaVelle A

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly sensitive nucleic acid hybridization assay was used to compare the extent of nonrepetitive DNA transcription in rat liver between the ages of two and ten months. The basic approach consisted on initially purifying the DNA expressed in liver at these ages and then using it in reactions with homologous and hete...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Grady LJ,Campbell WP

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative ultrastructural study of the posterior pituitary was undertaken. The posterior pituitary is the storage of the hormones vasopressin and oxytocin. Female C57BL/Icrfat mice which were under conditions of normal hydration were sampled at 8 and 32 months of age. There was a slight age-related decline in the...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Wilkinson A,Davies I

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in glycosaminoglycans during in vitro aging were investigated in human diploid fibroblasts. The cells were found to produce predominantly hyaluronate and smaller amounts of chondroitin 4-sulfate, chondroitin 6-sulfate, dermatan sulfate and heparan sulfate. Accumulation of heparan sulfate on the cell surface wa...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Matuoka K,Mitsui Y

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic microsomal monooxygenase induction was investigated in young-adult and middle-aged male Fischer 344 rats. Monooxygenase components and drug metabolism activities were determined in liver microsomes prepared from rats treated with phenobarbital (PB, beta-naphthoflavone (BNF) or methyltestosterone (MT) and compa...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Rikans LE,Notley BA

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related variations in the stromal cell population of human bone marrow were studied by means of a cloning assay. It was found that these cells are heterogeneous both in division capacity and in morphology. Fibroblast-like progenitor cells could be distinguished from epithelial-like cells, having only a very limite...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Mets T,Verdonk G

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of glucocorticosteroid and thyroid hormone and of glucagon and insulin in the pre- and postnatal developmental formation of carbamoyl-phosphate synthase, ornithine transcarbamoylase, arginase, glutamate dehydrogenase, tyrosine aminotransferase, glucose-6-phosphatase, hexokinase and glucokinase activities in r...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Lamers WH,Mooren PG

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocytes isolated from 6-, 12-, 18-, and 30-month-old female Fischer F344 rats were examined by scanning electron microscopy. No significant change in cell size with age was observed. However, the surface morphology of the cells isolated from the older animals exhibited a significant increase in surface folds. This...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Engelmann GL,Richardson A,Katz A,Fierer JA

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In predicting the degree of brain atrophy as measured by CT, the AGP score and a few clinical variables were of some remarkable value. Especially the variables related to memory disorders and lack of insight are easily and reliably assessed during the course of the examination. In comparison to other more widely used ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Gutzmann H,Avdaloff W

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to determine the relevance of the free radical theory of ageing to age changes discernible in connective tissue parameters, a small colony of C3H/He and LAF1 mice was set up, with sample culled at intervals throughout the lifespan to provide experimental samples. To half of the stock a dietary supplement...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Blackett AD,Hall DA

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elastase and lipid levels of the plasmas of subjects and of those who have suffered a stroke have been measured, and it has been shown that the normal age related fall in elastase content is mirrored more closely by the fall in high density lipoprotein cholesterol than by changes in total cholesterol. After a stroke a...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Hall DA,Elridi SS,Zajac A,Middleton RS

更新日期：1980-11-01 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：:A progressive decrease of dopamine and related enzyme activities and a decline in the dopaminergic receptor functions in the striatum and limbic system controlling behavior have been observed in senescent brain. These changes provide a neurochemical basis for some behavioral and mental disturbances of the aged and sug...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Jellinger K,Flament H,Riederer P,Schmid H,Ambrozi L

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human diploid fibroblasts, TIG-1, were serially subcultivated at low inoculation densities thus maintaining the cultures in log phase throughout their in vitro lifespan. Their lifespan was shortened in calendar time without decreasing the cumulative number of population doublings when compared with the lifespan of cel...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Kaji K,Matsuo M

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocyte morphology of the three zones of the liver lobule was evaluated by stereological analysis in 3-month-old and 35-month-old virgin female WAG/Rij rats. In the old rats, the volume of the nucleus and cytoplasm, and volume densities of smooth endoplasmic reticulum and lysosomes were increased in all areas of th...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Meihuizen SP,Blansjaar N

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kidney glomeruli of 9-month-old intact, 23-month-old intact, and 23-month-old hypophysectomized female rats were examined by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. With increasing age, the glomeruli increased in diameter and more podocyte microvilli were found. Hypophysectomy (4 months before sacrifice) re...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Johnson JE Jr,Cutler RG

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandin (PG) synthesis by human embryo lung fibroblasts in culture was determined with increasing population doubling. These cultures synthesized PGE2, PGF2 alpha, PGI2 (prostacyclin) and TXA2 (thromboxane A2) in response to fetal bovine serum or ascorbic acid. Changes in prostaglandin synthesis by these cells d...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Polgar P,Taylor L

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the validity of estimating age-related changes in rat liver nuclear RNA synthesis by following the incorporation of radioactive nucleotides into an acid-insoluble product, age-related changes in endogenous nucleotide concentration were investigated. Both the total nucleotide and the nucleoside monophosphate (N...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Bolla RI,Miller JK

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocytes isolated from young (1 month) rats were as sensitive to the cytotoxic effects of erythromycin estolate and chlorpromazine as were liver cells obtained from older (3, 10 and 24 months) rats. The hepatocytes from the 24-month-old rats released aspartate transaminase more slowly than did parenchymal cells iso...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Abernathy CO,Lukacs L,Zimmerman HJ

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative measurements of glycogen in aging bruchids showed there was a considerable decrease (> 50%) with age except on the fifth day when an increase was observed, followed by a decrease on the sixth day. The variations in glycogen content with age suggests that glycogen serves as one of the energy sources respon...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Sharma SP,Sharma G

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of the rat isolated testicular capsule to norepinephrine (NE), acetylcholine (ACh) and prostaglandins (PG) was found to be age-dependent. The testicular capsular contractions attributable to smooth muscle cells located within the tunica albuginea may be involved in the transport of non-motile spermatozoa ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Horowitz AM,Davis JR

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concanavalin A (Con A)-mediated red blood cell (RBC) adsorption with the RBC coating method (in which Con A-coated RBC's are adsorbed to fibroblasts) was greatly increased by glutaraldehyde fixation of RBCs before Con A-coating and decreased by the fixation of fibroblasts. On the other hand, RBC adsorption with the fi...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Aizawa S,Kurimoto F

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of age-related cell surface changes could be demonstrated in human diploid fibroblasts with the two methods of the lectin-mediated red blood cell (RBC) adsorption assay: the fibroblast coating method (in which RBCs are adsorbed to lectin-coated fibroblasts) and the RBC coating method (in which lectin-coated ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Aizawa S,Kurimoto F

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The previous observation (Eur. J. Biochem., 82 (1978) 563--567) that age-dependent accumulation of lipid peroxides follows as a consequence of increased radical formation in mitochondria has prompted an examination of the response of a set of protective enzymes to the above situation. Levels of mitochondrial catalase ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Nohl H,Hegner D,Summer KH

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four tRNAs are known to contain Q, a hypermodified form of guanosine, in one of their isoacceptor forms; these are tRNATyr, tRNAHis, tRNAAsp, and tRNAAsn. The first three have been examined in Drosophila melanogaster at different ages in four genotypes. As the adult flies age, the ratio of the Q/non-Q isoacceptors inc...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Owenby RK,Stulberg MP,Jacobson KB

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The touch smears of brain cells and hepatocytes of young and senescent mice were stained with antibody to cytidine nucleoside by an indirect immunofluorescence technique and subsequently combined with fluorescence cresyl violet staining of DNA. Nuclear binding of the antibody which reacts only with denatured or single...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Nakanishi K,Shima A,Fukuda M,Fujita S

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On a DNA basis, there is higher concentration of polysomes in the brain of newborn than in the brain of adult mice, but there is no maturation-dependent decrease in tRNA content during postnatal development. The amino acid incorporating activity of cell-free systems with polysomes or mitochondria from newborn brain ex...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Goertz B

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method has been developed for the direct measurement of genetic variants in mammalian cells in culture which does not require cell division and is therefore suitable for ageing studies. Previous evidence suggests that these variants are mutations. The variant frequency was measured during the lifespan of populations...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Fulder SJ

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolution of longevity of the ungulates, carnivores and primates is reviewed. Special emphasis is focused on recent evolutionary history of longevity along the hominid ancestral-descendant sequence leading to modern man. Maximum life span potential (MLP) or the change in MLP is predicted in extinct species by (1) a ph...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Cutler RG

更新日期：1979-02-01 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 age-dependent drop in mixed lymphocyte reactivity and responsiveness to concanavalin A of lymph node and spleen cells of C57Bl/6J female mice were studied. The relative decrease in mixed lymphocyte reactivity was shown to be the same whether mounted against H-2 or Mls incompatibile stimulator cells. The time of pe...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Gershon H,Merhav S,Abraham C

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome analyses and Ig level determinations were carried out on seventeen aged men and women, 83--100 years of age. In men, significant correlations were found between hypodiploidy and IgA (gamma = 0.95) and between monosomy C and IgG (gamma = 0.79) while in women, monosomy G and IgG were significantly correlated ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Matsuyama SS,Cohen D,Jarvik LF

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although myocardial actomyosin ATPase specific activity determined at Ca2+ levels of 1 x 10(-3) to 1 x 10(-2) M is consistently higher in two-month old male Fischer rats than in twelve-month old individuals, this difference can be eliminated if the enzyme is assayed at lower calcium concentrations. This suggests that ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Rockstein M,Chesky JA,Lopez T

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose phosphorylating activity of human erythrocytes quickly decreases during cell ageing; the electrophoretic pattern suggests that this fast decrease is due mainly to the isozyme II. We have shown that in the young cells only hexokinase I and II are responsible for the glucose phosphorylation, while in the old cel...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Fornaini G,Magnani M,Dachà M,Bossú M,Stocchi V

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human fibroblast cell line WI-38 shows a gradual decline in glutamine synthetase specific activity with increasing age in culture. However, the level of functional enzyme per cell does not change with age. Heat inactivation profiles indicate that glutamine synthetase from younger cell cultures is more heat labile ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Viceps-Madore D,Cristofalo VJ

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis was made of the cellular basis of decline in the antibody immune response with advancing age. Employing the cell transfer system, it was found that spleen cells of aged mice have a limited capacity to react to SRBC when transferred into young irradiated recipients. Partial reconstitution was achieved when thy...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Friedman D,Globerson A

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pronounced suppression of the humoral, hemolytic, primary immune response in old (22 months) mice was demonstrated as compared with this response in young (10 weeks) mice. The suppression is associated with a lower thymus weight:body weight ratio. In contrast, the ratios spleen weight:body weight and liver weight:bo...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Bliznakov EG

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats of two age groups (6 weeks and 30 months) received (1) a single dose of 600 mg D-galactosamine (GalN)/kg body weight by intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection, (2) a single dose of 600 mg GalN/kg body weight i.p. combined with 20 mg prednisolone/kg body weight subcutaneously at the beginning of the experiment. The kine...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Platt D,Förster K,Förster L

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A few reports suggest that pigmented granules found in molluscan neurons accumulate with age as do lipofuscin granules in vertebrate cells; however, no reports on molluscan neurons include detailed descriptions of granule accumulation or histochemical tests to identify the pigment as lipofuscin-like. In this study lig...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Robles LJ

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At various time intervals (10, 15, 20, 25, 30 min) after injection of 3H-fucose into the medial septal nucleus of young adult (3 months old) and senescent (25 months old) Fischer-344 rats, the specific activities of trichloroacetic acid-phosphotungstic acid (TCA-PTA) soluble and insoluble fractions were determined in ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors： Geinisman Y,Bondareff W,Telser A

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00