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BACKGROUND: Animal experiments have found that injection of angiogenic cells or growth factors into experimental animals significantly promotes the growth of collateral vessels. However, a large number of clinical randomized controlled trials, including administration of angiogenic cells to patients with severe lower limb ischemia or myocardial infarction, have been ineffective to restore the blood flow in ischemic tissues. By comparing the remarkable effects of animal experiments and disappointing clinical trial results, it may reflect a fact that young animals are used in most laboratories, while most of the patients with ischemic diseases are elderly. OBJECTIVE: To explore the effect of aging on the growth of collateral vessels in ischemic hind limbs in adult and aged rat models of femoral artery ligation. METHODS: Twelve healthy adult rats (6-month-old) were divided into adult sham group and adult ligation group, and 12 aged rats (20-month-old) were divided into aged sham group and aged ligation group. Rats in the ligation groups underwent femoral artery ligation. The rats survived for 1 week after surgery. Three rats in each group were taken and the muscles with collateral vessels in the hind limbs were taken for frozen section for immunofluorescence histochemical detection of endothelial nitric oxide synthase, Ki67 and matrix metalloproteinase 2. Another three rats from each group were subjected to angiography using gelatin trioxide and X-ray for observing the growth of collateral vessels. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Compared with the sham groups, rats in the ligation groups had more collateral vessels in hind limbs, increased number of Ki67-positive cells and increased expression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase and matrix metalloproteinase 2 (P < 0.01). Compared with the adult ligation group, the number of collateral vessels was less (P < 0.01), the number of Ki67 positive cells was reduced (P < 0.01), and the expression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase and matrix metalloproteinase 2 was significantly decreased in the aged ligation group (P < 0.01). Overall, aging impairs the growth of collateral vessels in ischemic hind limbs of rats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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在电力系统中,当受到强大的冲击电流时,电力光缆将在高于导体最高工作温度10%的温度场环境下工作,长时间的高温老化工况状态对光纤复合低压电缆（OPLC）光单元中的光纤造成极大的负效应,严重地影响了整个电网的安全运行。针对上述问题,为了研究单模光纤受热前后机械性能变化情况,分析高温老化对光纤的损伤程度,文章通过模拟高于以聚氯乙烯绝缘的OPLC导体温度10%的温度场环境,测试了不同温度和老化时间段下单模光纤的断裂强度、断裂伸长率和光纤涂层剥离力等光纤机械性能,基于测试数据,运用线性拟合的统计方法,研究了在该温度场环境下老化前后光纤机械特性的变化趋势。试验结果表明,OPLC中光纤的应力腐蚀敏感性参数比涂覆剥离力特性受热更敏感,随着老化时间增长,不同老化时长后涂覆剥离力比应力腐蚀敏感性参数的差值变化量更大,耐热性能更差。基于机械性能的测试结果,文章提出了增加光单元耐热层的优化意见。

Three types of acidic paddy soils from Hechi, Xiangtan, and Shaoguan were selected, and a 308 day soil cultivation experiment was performed in a greenhouse to reveal the effects of the aging of immobilization materials on the stability of soil cadmium（Cd）immobilization. Each experiment site was equipped with a control treatment and two treatments with sepiolite and biochar. The experiment was performed to study the changes in soil Cd fractions in the paddy soils of Hechi, Xiangtan, and Shaoguan and the Pearson correlation between the forms of soil Cd, iron（Fe), manganese（Mn), copper（Cu), and zinc（Zn). Results showed that after the application of sepiolite,the content of acid-extractable Cd in the Hechi, Xiangtan, and Shaoguan soils showed downward and upward trends in the early and latest ages of soil cultivation, respectively. Specifically, the ratio of acid-extracted Cd to total Cd in the Hechi soil decreased by 9.0 percentage points from 0 to 28 days and increased by 13.8 percentage points from 28 to 308days. Similarly, the percentage of acid-extracted Cd in the Xiangtan and Shaoguan soils decreased by 3.2 percentage points and 4.4 percentage points from 0 to 7days, respectively, and increased by 2.0 percentage points and 3.5 percentage points from 7 to 308 days, respectively. The content of acid-extracted Cd in the Hechi, Xiangtan,and Shaoguan soils increased and then decreased similar to that of soil treated with biochar. In 0~7days, the ratio of soil acid-extracted Cd to total Cd at the three test sites decreased by 5.5~8.1 percentage points and increased by 3.4~6.6 percentage points in 7~308 days.Additionally, compared with the application of sepiolite, the application of biochar was strongly correlated with of Cd, Fe, Mn morphology in the soil. The conclusions were the following：after the application of sepiolite or biochar, Cd in the paddy soils of Hechi, Xiangtan, and Shaoguan was gradually reactivated and re-released; the aging of sepiolite and biochar significantly affected the morphological changes of Cd in the paddy soils of Hechi, Xiangtan, and Shaoguan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

D-Psicose, an epimer of D-fructose, occurs in very smallquantities in nature; however, microbialisomerases that convert D-fructose to D-psicose have been discovered, enabling D-psicose to be industrially mass produced. D-Psicose is a rare sugar that is low in energy (about 10% of sucrose) and has disease-preventing effects such as suppression of postprandial blood glucose elevation. D-Psicose has been investigated for use in processed foods in North America and Asia, with applied research beginning in the 2 000 s. Early research aimed to improve the gelling ability of food proteins by non-enzymatic glycation of D-psicose utilizing the Maillard reaction. Subsequently, application of the food properties, including physical properties and storage stability, of D-psicose to processed foods as an alternative to conventionalsugars such as sucrose has been studied. The use of D-psicose in place of sucrose improved the physical properties and storage stability of processed foods. The mechanism of these effects of D-psicose is attributable to its ability to confer a high water-holding capacity to the processed foods. Furthermore, D-psicose more readily facilitates the Maillard reaction with proteins in foods relative to other reducing sugars, and the resulting reaction products are involved in improving the physical properties of processed foods. This review details the food processing characteristics of D-psicose clarified to date. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Skin is the largest organ of human body. Its histological changes may reflect local lesions and serve as the manifestation of systemic diseases. Some molecules in the skin can absorb exciting light of a specific wavelength and emit emission light with a longer wavelength. These molecules are called endogenous fluorophores, and the emission light is called skin autofluorescence (SAF). Different endogenous fluorophore has its specific fluorescence spectrum. When the skin undergoes pathological changes, the content of certain endogenous fluorophores in the skin will change, and even new endogenous fluorophores will be produced. SAF detection technique is a non-invasive, convenient and low-cost optical measurement without toxic side effects, which contains autofluorescence imaging and autofluorescence spectroscopy. It plays a vital and distinctive role in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of various skin diseases and evaluation of skin pathological changes by analyzing the fluorescence intensity and the excitation or emission spectrum of skin endogenous fluorophores, especially in the early diagnosis of the disease and long-term follow-up after treatment. So far, SAF technology has been used in differential diagnosis of psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis and other types of inflammatory dermatosis, in monitoring the treatment effect, quantitatively evaluating skin wound healing and scar fibrosis and predicting the type of scar formation, in quantifying and calibrating skin aging and photoaging, in differential diagnosis of multiple types of benign or malignant skin tumors, in guidance of the scope of resection in surgical operations, etc. In addition, SAF produced by advanced glycation end products can also be used as one of the risk grading indicators for various system diseases such as endocrine system, nervous system, cardiovascular system, and urinary system. This article briefly introduces the principle of SAF detection techique, reviews the application of SAF technology to the diagnosis of diseases, supplements the application of other systemic diseases and provides an outlook on the future development of SAF detection technique, in order to provide reference for related medical fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Biochar has gained increasing attention in recent years due to its potential use in environmental remediation. The application of biochar may adsorb heavy metals from wastewater and decrease the bioavailability of heavy metals in soil. The concentrations of endogenous heavy metals in biochar are significant higher than in its feedstock after pyrolysis treatment. However, limits for heavy metals in biochars are lacking in some countries, which may lead to potential environmental risk resulting from the large-scale application of biochars rich in heavy metals. Therefore, three kinds of biochars named RB, SB, and JB with various contents of Cu and Cd were prepared from the straws of Pennisetum sinese grew in clean soil, moderately-polluted, and highly-polluted soils by heavy metals, respectively. The physicochemical properties of three biochars were investigated by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Adsorption capacities of Cu2+ and Cd2+ for three biochars were evaluated by batch experiments. Finally, the effects of Dry-Wet (DW) and Freeze-Thaw (FT) aging on the stability of heavy metals adsorbed by three biochars with different contents of endogenous heavy metals were investigated. Results showed that large amount of micro-pores were distributed on the surface of biochars, and RB contained the highest pH value and ash content. The XPS analysis indicated that biochars had a lot of organic functional groups, such as C‒C/C–H, C–OH, C=O and O=C–OH. The adsorption data were better fitted by Langmuir isotherm model (R²=0.951-0.998) for three biochars. Adsorption capacities of Cu2+ followed the order of RB>SB>JB, and the order of RB>JB>SB for adsorption capacities of Cd2+. RB had the highest adsorption amounts of Cu2+ and Cd2+ with 54.3 and 37.3 mg/g among three biochars, respectively. Similarly, the highest concentrations of total Cu and Cd after saturated adsorption were found in RB with 21.4 and 4.78 mg/g, respectively. DW and FT aging significantly changed the bioavailability of Cu and Cd in three biochars after saturated adsorption. DW aging significantly reduced the TCLP-extractable Cu in biochar after saturated adsorption compared with that of FT aging. For instance, concentrations of TCLP-extractable Cu in SB-DW and SB-FT were decreased by 1.57 and 0.39 times than that of SB. Moreover, DW aging promoted the transformation of Cu from acid-soluble and residual fractions to reducible and oxidizable fractions, and reduced the environmental risk of Cu. However, DW and FT aging significantly increased the TCLP-extractable Cd in biochars after saturated adsorption, promoted the transformation of Cd from residual fraction to acid-soluble, reducible and oxidizable fractions, and increased the environmental risk of Cd. Especially for RB-DW and RB-FT, contents of acid-soluble Cd were increased by 6.55 and 7.99 times than that of RB. It may be due to the surface complexation and chemical precipitation played key roles for the adsorption of Cu and Cd, respectively. In short, RB retained the highest amount of Cu and Cd, but DW and FT aging increased the environmental risk of Cd in three biochars after saturated adsorption. The study is of great significance for evaluating the long-term remediation stabilization of biochar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Depression is a common mental problem and is also a leading cause of disability, which serves as an important contributor to the overall global burden of disease. It may lead to serious consequences including increased risk of morbidity and mortality. This warrants the need to identify correlates such as modifiable lifestyle behaviors that can prevent or delay the onset of depressive symptoms in aging populations. Sedentary behaviors such as TV viewing, reading, mobile phone/computer use, social chatting, and passive transport etc. are prevalent among older adults. Unfortunately, sedentary behaviors have been increasingly recognized as an independent risk factor for different health outcomes. Although the link between sedentary behaviors and several geriatric health outcomes including allcause mortality, cardio-metabolic diseases and obesity in later life has been established, the associations of sedentary behaviors with depressive symptoms have not been comprehensively investigated. Therefore, this study aimed to provide a narrative review by scrutinizing the recent epidemiologic evidence for prospective cohort studies of sedentary behaviors and depressive symptoms in older adults. To fulfill the aim, the following issues were raised and analyzed in an effort to disentangle the complex relationships between late-life sedentary behaviors and depressive symptoms. First, the prevalence and correlates of geriatric depressive symptoms were presented and discussed. Second, the definition of sedentary behaviors and the prevalence of late-life sedentary behaviors were described. Third, the relevant issues of measuring sedentary behaviors were addressed. Fourth, the effects of sedentary behaviors on various health outcomes were identified. Fifth, the prospective studies regarding sedentary behaviors and depressive symptoms in older adults were examined based on epidemiological perspectives. Sixth, based on the preceding information, research gaps in the literature were identified and discussed. Conclusions and suggestions for future research on this topic were proposed. Based on limited evidence, late-life sedentary behaviors are associated with higher risk of depressive symptoms. Future studies on the current topic are recommended to conduct large-scale prospective cohort studies with multiple waves of data collection employs a combination of subjective and objective measures of sedentary behaviors, such as a questionnaire and accelerometry, by which studies could explore the bi-directional relationships of different types of sedentary behaviors with depressive symptoms in older adults and the mechanism between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ordinary emulsified asphalt has the defect of insufficient adhesion and durability when it is used as the asphalt pavement bonding layer material. To improve its performance, waterborne epoxy resin (WER) was mixed with styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) to prepare a better-performance pavement bonding material, SBR +WER (SW) through the method of modification and emulsification. The objective of this paper is to investigate the influence of aging on the viscoelasticity of the water borne epoxy resin compound SBR modified emulsified asphalt. The SBR modifiede mulsified asphalt was chosen as the comparison bonding material. The mass loss, penetration, softening point, ductility and viscosity, as well as the complex shear modulus, phase angle and rutting factor of the evaporation residue samples of the SW and SBR modified emulsified asphalt before and after aging were investigated. The results show that the SW bonding material possessed better aging resistance than the SBR modified emulsified asphalt. The addition of water borne epoxy resin enabled the SW bonding material to have more stable low-temperature deformation capacity under the aging effect, and improved its high temperature deformation resistance and durability as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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目的探讨根据眶周不同的衰老表现采取个性化的手术方案治疗眶周老化的效果。方法自2019 年4 月至 2020 年12 月，昆明医科大学第二附属医院整形外科收治58 例眶周老化患者。根据眶周衰老表现，单纯或联合进行眉下切口皮 肤切除术、重睑成形术、切眉联合松弛眼轮匝肌整复的眼睑松弛矫正术、睑袋整复术、联合弓状缘释放眶隔脂肪重置的睑袋整复 术、眶周脂肪填充术等个性化的手术方案。结果本组58 例患者术后获随访2~14 个月，平均8 个月。眶睑皮肤松弛、眉下垂、眼 睑凹陷、睑袋以及泪沟老化均获得了明显的改善。结论基于眶周的衰老解剖改变具有很大的个体差异，术前根据不同的衰老 表现制定个性化的手术方案，效果可靠,患者满意度较高,值得临床推广应用。 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Background: Findings on structural brain alterations following trauma are inconsistent due probably to heterogeneity in imaging studies and population, clinical presentations, genetic vulnerability, and selection of controls. This study examines whether trauma and re-experiencing symptoms are associated with specific alterations in grey matter volumes and if this varies according to 5-HTTLPR genotype. Methods: Structural MRI was used to acquire anatomical scans from 377 community-dwelling older adults. Quantitative regional estimates of 22 subregional volumes were derived using FreeSurfer software. Lifetime trauma was assessed using the validated Watson's PTSD inventory, which evaluates the most severe trauma experienced according to DSM criteria. Analyses adjusted for age, sex, total brain volume, head injury, and comorbidities. Results: Of the 212 participants reporting lifetime trauma, 35.4% reported re-experiencing symptoms and for 1.9%, this was severe enough to meet criteria for full threshold PTSD. In participants with the SS 5-HTTLPR genotype only, re-experiencing symptoms were associated with smaller volumes in middle and superior temporal, frontal (lateral orbital, rostral and caudal middle) and parietal (precuneus, inferior and superior) regions. The trauma-exposed participants without re-experiencing symptoms were not significantly different from the non-trauma-exposed participants except for smaller precuneus and superior parietal region in traumatized participants and a larger amygdala in traumatized women specifically. Conclusions: In the non-clinical sample, lifetime trauma and re-experiencing symptoms were associated with smaller volume in prefrontal, temporal and parietal cortex subregions, and this varied according to serotonergic genetic vulnerability, 5-HTTLPR SS individuals being most susceptible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Executive functions are a type of high-level mental functions that are easily affected by aging, although they take a long time to develop. When seen from the perspective of the lifetime, executive functions seem to be hardly consolidated and easily deteriorate. Moreover, it is considered that they are affected by various developmental disorders. This study examined the development and decline of executive functions mainly from the perspective of "inhibition of responses." Firstly, the characteristics of executive functions are discussed from the standpoint of predictability, malleability, and correlation. Inhibitory functions, which are considered the most fundamental factors of executive functions, are examined in relation to other functions, and previous studies that classified inhibition into different types are introduced. Secondly, various problems of executive functions seen in typical and atypical development are reviewed. Thirdly, relevant studies on social, linguistic, and experiential factors, are introduced, by explaining that each factor is essential for the development of inhibitory functions. Finally, future issues for studies in the development of inhibitory functions are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the aging resistance of sandwich structures made with cork agglomerate as core and flax-reinforced polymeric laminates as face sheets was investigated for the first time. In order to evaluate their durability in a hostile environment, a sandwich plate was manufactured by vacuum bagging technique and aged under salt-fog spray conditions, according to ASTM B 117 standard. The evolution of the sandwich mechanical properties during the aging exposition was analyzed by carrying out quasi-static flexural tests and Charpy impact tests both on unaged specimens and on specimens aged for 10, 25, and 60 days, respectively. The quasi-static experimental results showed that despite the salt-fog exposition leads to clear decrements in both maximum strength and modulus, the deformation capability of the sandwich structure evidences a noticeable improvement. According to this last result, it was found that the impact strength of the sandwich specimens was clearly increased after the salt-fog exposition evidencing that the studied green sandwich maintains good toughness properties in a hostile environment such as marine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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To investigate the changes of vascular wall structure and smooth muscle cell phenotype during the development, maturation and aging of the thoracic aorta, by studying the diameter of the thoracic aorta and the wall thickness of mice and the smooth muscle cell phenotype markers of vimentin and 琢-SM-actin. Twenty-four Kun-Ming mice were divided 4 groups according to their ages: 3 d, 3 m, 6 m and 16 m. The following experiments were performed HE staining for measurements of the diameter and thickness of the thoracic aorta. The expression of Vimentin and 琢-SM-actin was detected by immunofluorescence with special antibodies against Vimentin and 琢-SM-actin. Thoracic aortic diameter and wall thickness were higher in 16 m mice and the cellular density decreased. In 3 d mice, vimentin expression in the thoracic aorta was higher, and decreased in 6 m old mice, then up-regulated in 16 m mice. In 3 d mice, 琢-SM actin expression in the thoracic aorta was lower, and increased in 6 m mice, then down-regulated in 16 m mice (P<0.05). The diameter of the thoracic aorta and the wall thickness of the Kunming mice increase with age, and the cellular density was reduced in the medial layer of aortas from the old mice. The phenotype of smooth muscle cells changes from a synthetic phenotype in young to a contractile phenotype, which in turn changes to a synthetic phenotype in age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The orthogonal test was carried out with water consumption and asphalt foaming temperature as two main control parameters to determine the suitable preparation conditions for asphalt foaming. According to the production principle of blended asphalt, different amounts of foamed asphalt and matrix asphalt were separately added to aged asphalt to carry out regeneration test on aged asphalt. Rotating viscosity and penetration were used as key indicators to evaluate the performance of recycled asphalt and measure asphalt regeneration. Combining phase angle, rutting factor, fatigue factor and viscosity-temperature relationship curve, the difference of regeneration effect between foamed asphalt and matrix asphalt on aged asphalt was analyzed from the rheological point of view. The experimental research shows that compared with the traditional matrix asphalt, the performance of foamed asphalt recycled asphalt pavement binder is better. The water molecular structure existing inside the foamed asphalt can enhance the asphalt fluidity and fusion performance, and the contact area between foamed asphalt and aged asphalt is increased to supplement the missing components of aged asphalt. Fourier infrared spectroscopy and electron microscopy were used to reveal the asphalt regeneration process and material change law from microscopic perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The insulation system of transformer is especially important for the safe and stable operation of transformer，the service life of transformer can be evaluated by analyzing the aging degree of oil-paper insulation material． The main insulation materials commonly used，the insulation aging analysis of insulation materials，the diagnosis methods of oil-paper insulation materials，the the service life evaluation of power transformers and the research of new insulation materials are introduced，and the new evaluation method for service life of power transformeris forecasted． It is the main research direction of transformer industry in the future to seek new insulation materialswhich canmeet the insulation requirementsof transformers． [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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