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Stability against backward balance loss: Age-related modifications following slip-like perturbations of multiple amplitudes

Falls are one of the most serious problems in the elderly. Although previous studies clearly link the increased risk of falls with ageing, the mechanisms responsible for the modifications of reactive motor behaviours in response to external perturbations a ...

Elsevier Ireland Ltd2017

Amyloid Single Cell Cytotoxicity Assays by Nanomotion Detection

Giovanni Dietler, Hilal Lashuel, Sandor Kasas, Anne-Laure Mahul Mellier, Giovanni Longo, Francesco Simone Ruggeri

Cells are extremely complex systems able to modify actively their metabolism and behaviour in response to environmental conditions and stimuli, such as pathogenic agents or drugs. The comprehension of these responses is central to understand the molecular ...

Springer Nature2017

Nicotinamide riboside kinases display redundancy in mediating nicotinamide mononucleotide and nicotinamide riboside metabolism in skeletal muscle cells

Carlos Canto Alvarez, Joanna Ratajczak

Objective: Augmenting nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD(+)) availability may protect skeletal muscle from age-related metabolic decline. Dietary supplementation of NAD(+) precursors nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) and nicotinamide riboside (NR) appe ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Internal electric fields and electrode effects in ferroelectric thin films for piezoelectric energy harvesting

Robin Nigon

The continuing decrease of power requirements of electronic circuits offers the potential to deploy wireless systems as embedded sensors for cars or industrial tools, and implanted medical devices. Harvesting ambient vibrations by an appropriate energy har ...

EPFL2017

Evolution of 3-D Transport Pathways and Triple-Phase Boundaries in the Ni-YSZ Hydrogen Electrode upon Fuel Cell or Electrolysis Cell Operation

Jan Van Herle, Marco Cantoni, Arata Nakajo, Pierre Burdet

The degradation of the Ni-YSZ electrode was investigated after SOFC or SOEC operation for up to 4,700 h and 10,700 h, respectively. 3-D FIB-SEM serial sectioning combined with 3-D EDS elemental mapping allowed the measurement of structural, material and el ...

2017

Eyetracking shows the source of age-related differences in prospective memory: Older adults monitor well, but fail to take action

Michael Herzog, Marc Michael Lauffs

Older adults often perform worse than younger adults on prospective memory tasks, but the exact mechanisms remain elusive. Participants had to indicate whether a letter in the center of gaze is a vocal or a consonant (ongoing task). The prospective memory ...

2017

Modelling of current and temperature effects on supercapacitors ageing. Part II: State-of-Health assessment

Mario Paolone, Dimitri Torregrossa

This second part of the paper proposes a model for predicting the State-of-Health (SOH) of electrochemical double layers supercapacitors (SCs) during combined high-pulsed power cycling and high-temperature life endurance stresses. The evolutions of the SC ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Is there a common cause for perceptual decline in the aging brain?

Michael Herzog, Aaron Michael Clarke

Even in the absence of neurodegenerative disease, aging strongly affects vision. Whereas optical deficits are well documented, much less is known perceptual deficits. In most perceptual studies, one paradigm is tested and it is usually found that older par ...

Sage Publications Ltd2016

Urolithin A induces mitophagy and prolongs lifespan in C. elegans and increases muscle function in rodents

Johan Auwerx, Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Patrick Aebischer, Laurent Mouchiroud, Pénélope Andreux, Dongryeol Ryu, Evan Graehl Williams, Elena Katsyuba, Norman Lionel Moullan, Pooja Jha, Damien Sébastien Huzard, Giuseppe Lo Sasso

The biological effects of urolithins remain poorly characterized, despite wide-spread human exposure via the dietary consumption of their metabolic precursors, the ellagitannins, which are found in the pomegranate fruit, as well as in nuts and berries. We ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Alpha7 subunit of the nicotinergic acethylcholine receptor gene (CHRNA7) and perception of coherent motion in aging

Michael Herzog

Genetic variations of the alpha7 subunit of the nicotinergic acetylcholine receptor gene (CHRNA7) are linked to cognitive deficits in aging and schizophrenia. However, little is known about associations of the CHRNA7 gene with aged-related decline in visua ...

2016

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