New vascular insights into premature aging

New insights into cardiac aging.

All animals have limited life spans, and work in a variety of organisms has established that caloric restriction results in increased longevity. For example, inbred female mice fed an ad libitum diet had an average life span of 27 months, whereas calorie-restricted mice fed a diet with 65% fewer calories had an average life span of 45 months.1 The mechanisms by which caloric restriction retards...

Mitophagy: New Insight into the Cardiovascular Aging  

New Insights into Dialysis Vascular Access: Introduction.

Optimizing vascular access outcomes continues to pose a tremendous challenge to nephrologists, surgeons, and radiologists who provide medical care to patients on hemodialysis. There is a huge discrepancy between the optimal vascular access outcome proposed by national guidelines (1) and the reality. Thus, for example, whereas the guidelines suggest that most patients should initiate hemodialysi...

Garlic and aging: new insights into an old remedy.

There has been an impressive gain in individual life expectancy with parallel increases in age-related chronic diseases of the cardiovascular, brain and immune systems. These can cause loss of autonomy, dependence and high social costs for individuals and society. It is now accepted that aging and age-related diseases are in part caused by free radical reactions. The arrest of aging and stimula...

New insights into aging phenomena from plasma chemistry

While gas discharges under atmospheric pressure occur as filamentary discharges, most studies on plasma polymerization, or plasma Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD), were carried out in low-pressure (low temperature, non-equilibrium) plasma. However, it is reasonable to assume that the fundamentals of plasma polymerization found by low-pressure discharge apply to the gas phase in the filamentary ...