Aging is associated with a decline in the normal functioning of the immune system that is
described by the canopy term “immunosenescence”. This contributes to poorer vaccine …

Aging results in chronic low grade inflammation that is associated with increased risk for
disease, poor physical functioning and mortality. Strategies that reduce age-related …

Growth factors regulated by specific macronutrients have been shown to promote aging and
accelerate mortality in the majority of the organisms studied. In particular, the enzymes …

We sought to determine if tendon inflammatory and histopathological responses increase in
aged rats compared to young rats performing a voluntary upper extremity repetitive task, and …

Background: Physical therapists treat older individuals, characterized as both a needy and
expanding population. Frailty, a predisability condition with links to chronic inflammatory …

Muscle atrophy is associated with healthy aging (ie, sarcopenia) and may be compounded
by comorbidities, injury, surgery, illness, and physical inactivity. While a bout of resistance …

There is an epidemic in children of metabolic syndrome, obesity, type 2 diabetes and other
individual diseases that form the components of metabolic syndrome. Poor diet and low …

Despite the fact that women living in industrialized countries are likely to spend a third of
their lives in menopause, the influence of the estrogen withdrawal associated with …

Ein besonderes Problem im Alter stellt die Hämatotoxizität vieler antitumoröser Therapien
dar. Die Veränderungen oder Nichtveränderungen, die das hämatopoetische Organ im …

Gemäß einem Modell nach Balducci verschiebt sich die Stammzellreserve im Alter vom
„ruhenden “, selbstreproduzierenden Pool zum proliferierenden Pool, entsprechend den …