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Altered oligodendrocyte function promotes cognitive decline in aging
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Frailty assessment in naturally aged mouse models: classification, limitations, and future directions
Naturally aged mice provide an important platform for studying frailty because functional decline emerges during biological aging rather than through acute injury or artificial manipulation. This review critically examines major frailty assessment tools used in aged mice, including the mouse frailty index, mouse frailty phenotype, physical function score/vitality score, mouse social frailty index, and mouse cognitive frailty index. We compare their conceptual foundations, scoring procedures,...
Phase-transition failure in aged skeletal muscle regeneration
Aged skeletal muscle is impaired at every phase of post-injury repair that has been examined, with myeloid recruitment delayed and skewed in composition, debris degradation lagging behind uptake, and muscle stem cell (MuSC) activation following a conserved trajectory at delayed kinetics. Deficits inside a phase may be differences of degree that a longer window absorbs, whereas the transition between phases offers no comparable slack. Each transition is triggered by a defined switch in signal,...
Fauci speaks out about the pandemic, global health—and his own record
Largely silent for the past year, the beleaguered former NIAID chief defends himself in friendly forum