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Is the Androgen Deficiency of Aging Men (ADAM) questionnaire useful for the screening of partial androgenic deficiency of aging men?
(2009)
Background: Androgen serum levels significantly decrease in older men, causing quality of life impairment and increasing the risk of chronic disease. This disorder is defined as PADAM (Partial Androgen Deficiency of Aging ...
Aging and loneliness: Implications from building the notion of risk Velhice e solidão: Implicações a partir da construção da noção de risco Vejez Y Soledad: Implicancias A Partir De La Construcción De La Noción De Riesgo
(Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud, 2015)
© 2015, Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud. All rights reserved. Population aging implies specific challenging when looking for the wellbeing of elderly. Loneliness is an issue of increase relevance in research and ...
Old age, science and power: Marginal notes to field development on age Vejez, ciencia y poder: Notas marginales a la formulación del campo de la edad
(Interciencia Association, 2017)
In recent years, social sciences and disciplines such as public health disclosed versions of Chilean aging as a neutral phenomenon, as a result of the modernization process of the State and health improvements in the ...
Bioethical dimensions of medical care in the elderly Dimensiones bioéticas del cuidado médico en el anciano
(1997)
This editorial examines the challenges posed by the current epidemiological transition towards ageing of societies, against the background of medical technologies: life-saving, life-sustaining and life-enhancing. Increased ...
Computational modelling of the effects of aging on syntactic processing in Spanish: A study using neural networks Modelamiento computacional de los efectos del envejecimiento sobre el procesamiento sintáctico en español: Un estudio mediante redes neuronal
(2011)
The focus of this article is the application of artificial neural networks to the quantification of the effects of aging on syntactic processing of complex sentences in Spanish. The network models studied were able to ...
Kisspeptin level in the aging ovary is regulated by the sympathetic nervous system
(BioScientifica Ltd., 2017)
Previous work has demonstrated that the increase in the activity of sympathetic nerves, which occurs during the subfertility period in female rats, causes an increase in follicular cyst development and impairs follicular ...
Age‐dependent changes in in vivo ethanol metabolism and in the activity of hepatic enzymes involved in ethanol oxidation and microsomal functions
(1988)
The study of the influence of the age of the animals (13 to 53 weeks) on the rate of ethanol metabolism in vivo and the total activity of liver alcohol dehydrogenase and microsomal ethanol oxidizing system showed a progressive ...
Neuroendocrinology and ovarian aging
(2012)
The ovarian aging, a dynamic process that precedes the clinical manifestations of menopause, can be assessed using ovarian reserve biomarkers. It is well-known that reproduction during the later years of reproductive life ...
Gaze distribution analysis and saliency prediction across age groups
(Public Library Science, 2018)
Knowledge of the human visual system helps to develop better computational models of visual attention. State-of-the-art models have been developed to mimic the visual attention system of young adults that, however, largely ...
Increased expression of mature cathepsin B in aging rat liver
(Springer Verlag, 2000)
Senescence has been proposed as an important safeguard against neoplasia. One of the hallmarks of cellular senescence in vitro as well as human aging in vivo is a reduced intracellular protein catabolism. The pathways ...