... Geroprotector Life span Nursing homes Aging To determine the presence of diabetes mellitus and heart failure/ischemia of all residents, we developed a mapping table based on the daily clinical drug administration (direct information on comorbidities was not available). It was designed by a specialist...

..., memory, and behavioral flexibility more clearly. Taken together, an evolutionary developmental psychology perspective that combines life span psychology with evolutionary biology appears to be a promising avenue for investigations of age-related changes in motivation and cognition. Not surprisingly...

...Avan Aihie Sayer; Cyrus Cooper Diet restriction is a well-recognised method of slowing aging and prolonging life span in animals. However, previous studies of this have tended to start after weaning and the effects of prenatal or early postnatal diet restriction have rarely been considered. Here we...

...R. Kakkar; J.S. Bains; S.P. Sharma Zaprionus paravittiger fed with vitamin E supplemented diet (1, 5 and 10 μg/ml) showed an increase in median and maximum life spans. Further increase in concentration accelerated the mortality rate. Females exhibited longer life span as compared to males...

... in the mean life span are observed between the lines. Yet the conditions in which these measurements were done are highly questionable. More fundamentally, using these data, the analysis of the selection process is impossible and conclusions about the determinism of life span are debatable. Life span...

... of longevity. Life span Gene-environment interaction Drosophila melanogaster Genetics of aging Reproduction at late age Selection Experimental Section Gerontology 1995;41:69-76 Robert Arkingab Steven Bucka Department of Biological Sciences and Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University...

..., because line differences in mean longevity are confounded with erratic temporal variations in life span. Using 15,000 flies from selected and control lines developed by Luckinbill and Clare [Heredity 1985;55:9–19], we show here that when lines are tested simultaneously in a carefully controlled...

...S.P. Sharma; Madhvi Sharma; R. Kakkar The median and maximum life spans of both sexes of Zaprionus paravittiger increased with methionine (100 m M ) feeding. It was accompanied by higher catalase and peroxidase enzyme activities. The lipid peroxide level as measured by malondialdehyde content...

... or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Life span Drosophila melanogaster Realized heritability Selection Variations...

...Hildegard E. Enesco; Alison McTavish; Riccardo Garberi Spontaneous activity level was measured in rotifers of the species Asplanchna brightwelli on each day of their 5-day life span. No correlation was seen in group data between activity level and life span. However, data from individuals showed...

...°C the fly CL intensity was stronger than at 25°C. Under the condition of the higher temperature, the fly life span was shorter (mean life span = 29 days at 30°C and 63 days at 25°C), and oxygen consumption (3.7 μl/mg·h at 25°C, 4.9 μl/mg·h at 30°C) and the mobility (movement distance = 25 mm/min...

...Harold R. Massie; T.R. Williams; V.R. Aiello Dietary cadmium chloride at concentrations of 1 × 10 –– 4 M or greater shorten the life span of Drosophila melanogaster by as much as 74%. The chelator, CDTA, inhibits the normal age-related cadmium accumulation in whole flies and also improves...

...S.K. Garg; S. Mahajan; S.P. Sharma In the bruchid Caryedon serratus , life span of males was longer than that of females. Catalase showed an increasing trend with age in both the sexes but the increase was higher in males. However, an opposite trend was observed for lipid peroxide levels. A rapid...

...F.A. Lints; M. Bourgois; A. Delalieux; J. Stoll; C.V. Lints A survey of all the papers relating to life span in Drosophila melanogaster published in Experimental Gerontology from its origin in 1964 to 1981 shows that, contrary to a common belief, the mean life span of females exceeds that of males...

...F.A. Lints A rereading of The Rate of Living [Pearl, University of London Press, London 1928] shows that Pearl’s thoughts about the meaning of inheritance and heredity, about the relations of between and within populations measurements and about the ways in which life span should be measured...

... of both male and female flies. Life span of female flies also decreased with increasing amplitude of temperature of oscillation but that of males increased (compared to that at the mean temperature) at moderate temperature amplitude. Variation of the period of oscillation (from a rhythm of 6 h/6 h up to 2...

...A.C. Economos; F.A. Lints The concept of an inverse relationship between life span of adult Drosophila and their developmental temperature is probably the result of an unwarranted generalization. Rather, in a wild-type laboratory strain the present study revealed a plateau phase...

...Harold R. Massie; Valerie R. Aiello; Timothy J. Doherty Feeding C57BL/6J male mice 1% ascorbic acid (1,430 mg/kg body weight) in their drinking water for life increased the average life span by 8.6% (p < 0.05) and perhaps by as much as 20.4%. The ascorbic acid group weighed 6–7% less than...

...Harold R. Massie; Trevor R. Williams; Valerie R. Aiello The life span of Drosophila melanogaster was reduced when copper compounds were fed at concentrations of 1 × 10 -3 M or greater. Feeding lower concentrations of copper compounds failed to significantly change life span. A combination of copper...

..., in the form of aluminum salts, decreased the life span by as much as 20%. A significant reduction in life span was found for 1 × 10 -4 M aluminum chloride and for 1 × 10 -3 M aluminum nitrate and aluminum sulfate. Dietary sodium fluoride failed to increase life span. 4 01 1985 4 03 1985 6 4...