New Perspectives on the Aging Lexicon

Flor Yeast: New Perspectives Beyond Wine Aging

The most important dogma in white-wine production is the preservation of the wine aroma and the limitation of the oxidative action of oxygen. In contrast, the aging of Sherry and Sherry-like wines is an aerobic process that depends on the oxidative activity of flor strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Under depletion of nitrogen and fermentable carbon sources, these yeast produce aggregates of ...

Perspectives on Aging Vestibular Function

Much is known about age-related anatomical changes in the vestibular system. Knowledge regarding how vestibular anatomical changes impact behavior for older adults continues to grow, in line with advancements in diagnostic testing. However, despite advancements in clinical diagnostics, much remains unknown about the functional impact that an aging vestibular system has on daily life activities ...

Mitophagy: New Insight into the Cardiovascular Aging  

Introduction: perspectives on healthy aging.

The lenses with which we view aging are formed by many things: the maturing of gerontology as a discipline, the development of our theoretical and methodological tools for examining age and aging, and population aging itself. ‘‘Healthy aging’’ has become one of those lenses. For many years our attention has been drawn to the frailties associated with aging as we attempt to alleviate the sufferi...

Aging and blood disorders: new perspectives, new challenges.