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Kinematics and Ground Reaction Force Determination: A Demonstration Quantifying Locomotor Abilities of Young Adult, Middle-aged, and Geriatric Rats
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2011
Locomotion is often examined as a behavioural outcome in various models of disease in fields such as neuroscience and orthopedics. This video paper intends to describe a method for collecting ground reaction forces and kinematics from rats during unrestrained locomotion.
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Preparation and Culture of Myogenic Precursor Cells/Primary Myoblasts from Skeletal Muscle of Adult and Aged Humans
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2017
This protocol describes a robust, reproducible and simple method of isolation and culture of myoblast progenitor cells from the skeletal muscle of adult and aged people. The muscles used here include foot and leg muscles. This approach enables the isolation of an enriched population of primary myoblasts for functional studies.
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An Introduction to Aging and Regeneration
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2023
Tissues are maintained through a balance of cellular aging and regeneration. Aging refers to the gradual loss of cellular function, and regeneration is the repair of damaged tissue generally mediated by preexisting adult or somatic stem cells. Scientists are interested in understanding the biological mechanisms behind these two complex processes. By doing so, researchers may be able to use somatic stem cells to treat degenerative diseases and develop therapies that could delay the effects of...
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Minimizing Hypoxia in Hippocampal Slices from Adult and Aging Mice
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2020
This is a protocol for acute slice preparation from adult and aging mouse hippocampi that takes advantage of transcardial perfusion and slice cutting with ice-cold NMDG-aCSF to reduce hypoxic damage to the tissue. The resulting slices stay healthy over many hours, and are suitable for long-term patch-clamp and field-recordings.
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Performing Permanent Distal Middle Cerebral with Common Carotid Artery Occlusion in Aged Rats to Study Cortical Ischemia with Sustained Disability
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2016
Here we present a protocol to produce permanent distal middle cerebral artery occlusion in elderly female rats with simultaneous occlusion of the carotid arteries to generate large cortical infarcts and sustained deficits. We show confirmation of the lesion size using structural MRI at 24 hr and 8 weeks after stroke.
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These factors accumulate over time and can interact rather than act independently. Genetic susceptibility may combine with environmental exposures, established behaviors, or earlier illness to influence cardiometabolic health, bone strength, cognition, and immune function. Considering this combined history helps clinicians identify changing risk profiles and tailor prevention or treatment instead of relying on age alone.
Hormonal and metabolic changes can modify how health risks develop or become clinically important. Their effects may contribute to changing patterns in cardiometabolic health, bone strength, cognition, or immune function, particularly alongside earlier disease and lifestyle influences. Recognizing these shifts helps clinicians reassess prevention needs and detect emerging problems before they contribute to future disability.
Assessment commonly considers several interconnected areas rather than a single organ system. Cardiometabolic health, bone strength, cognition, and immune function may each reflect the cumulative effects of genetics, environment, behavior, earlier disease, and changing hormonal or metabolic states. Reviewing these domains together supports a broader risk profile and can guide more individualized clinical decisions.
Personalized treatment accounts for differences in genetics, prior disease, environmental influences, behavior, and current hormonal or metabolic changes. Because these factors can produce different risk profiles, clinicians may adapt prevention and treatment priorities to the individual rather than applying identical decisions to every patient. This approach supports earlier intervention and may help reduce later disability.
A preventive approach can combine screening, vaccination, lifestyle counseling, and early detection of chronic conditions. These activities address both current risk and the possibility of future decline in areas such as cardiometabolic health, bone strength, cognition, or immune function. Integrating them into clinical care supports healthy aging and helps identify problems while they remain manageable.
Screening and early detection help clinicians recognize chronic conditions or changing risks before they contribute to substantial disability. In this population, these activities are considered alongside personal disease history, behavioral and environmental influences, and evolving health profiles. The resulting information can support timely counseling, preventive measures, or personalized treatment decisions within medical care.
Vaccination and lifestyle counseling are preventive tools that address modifiable aspects of future health while clinicians monitor broader risk changes. Used with screening and early detection, they can support cardiometabolic health, bone strength, cognition, and immune function as people move through middle age. Their inclusion reflects a focus on preventing later disability rather than treating disease only after it appears.
Medical care during this stage connects present-day prevention with longer-term outcomes. Clinicians can combine early detection, screening, vaccination, lifestyle counseling, and personalized treatment to address changing risks and existing disease. This coordinated focus aims to reduce future disability, preserve important areas of health, and support healthier aging as patients move toward older age.