高齢者の食生活の実態 : 男性と女性の比較

A survey was conducted among 159 male and female inhabitants aged 65 or above of Osaka Prefecture to assess their degree of satisfaction about meals and factors affecting it. The survey was conducted using questionnaire sheets and the data obtained was treated with Hayashi's Quantification I. The results are summarized as follows. (1) Factors yielding a positive score in the dietary satisfaction are i) meals cooked by their spouses or themselves ii) accompany to have meals with them. (2) When compared with female inhabitants, the dietary life of male inhabitants who cook by themselves is characterized by a limited ways of cooking, biased frequency of food intake, and tendency to skip meals. These results suggest that the quality of aged male inhabitants could have been improved if they had opportunities to practice cooking at home or at school when they were young

高齢者の食生活の実態 : 男性と女性の比較

A survey was conducted among 159 male and female inhabitants aged 65 or above of Osaka Prefecture to assess their degree of satisfaction about meals and factors affecting it. The survey was conducted using questionnaire sheets and the data obtained was treated with Hayashi's Quantification I. The results are summarized as follows. (1) Factors yielding a positive score in the dietary satisfaction are i) meals cooked by their spouses or themselves ii) accompany to have meals with them. (2) When compared with female inhabitants, the dietary life of male inhabitants who cook by themselves is characterized by a limited ways of cooking, biased frequency of food intake, and tendency to skip meals. These results suggest that the quality of aged male inhabitants could have been improved if they had opportunities to practice cooking at home or at school when they were young

A View from the Past Into our Collective Future: The Oncofertility Consortium Vision Statement

Today, male and female adult and pediatric cancer patients, individuals transitioning between gender identities, and other individuals facing health extending but fertility limiting treatments can look forward to a fertile future. This is, in part, due to the work of members associated with the Oncofertility Consortium. The Oncofertility Consortium is an international, interdisciplinary initiative originally designed to explore the urgent unmet need associated with the reproductive future of cancer survivors. As the strategies for fertility management were invented, developed or applied, the individuals for who the program offered hope, similarly expanded. As a community of practice, Consortium participants share information in an open and rapid manner to addresses the complex health care and quality-of-life issues of cancer, transgender and other patients. To ensure that the organization remains contemporary to the needs of the community, the field designed a fully inclusive mechanism for strategic planning and here present the findings of this process. This interprofessional network of medical specialists, scientists, and scholars in the law, medical ethics, religious studies and other disciplines associated with human interventions, explore the relationships between health, disease, survivorship, treatment, gender and reproductive longevity. The goals are to continually integrate the best science in the service of the needs of patients and build a community of care that is ready for the challenges of the field in the future

Changes in Gene Expression Profiling and Phenotype in Aged Multidrug Resistance Protein 4-Deficient Mouse Retinas

Multidrug resistance protein 4 (MRP4) is an energy-dependent membrane transporter responsible for cellular efflux of a broad range of xenobiotics and physiological substrates. In this trial, we aimed to investigate the coeffects of aging and MRP4 deficiency using gene expression microarray and morphological and electrophysiological analyses of mouse retinas. Mrp4-knockout (null) mice and wild-type (WT) mice were reared in the same conditions to 8-12 weeks (young) or 45-55 weeks (aged). Microarray analysis identified 186 differently expressed genes from the retinas of aged Mrp4-null mice as compared to aged WT mice, and subsequent gene ontology and KEGG pathway analyses showed that differently expressed genes were related to lens, eye development, vision and transcellular barrier functions that are involved in metabolic pathways or viral infection pathways. No significant change in thickness was observed for each retinal layer among young/aged WT mice and young/aged Mrp4-null mice. Moreover, immunohistochemical analyses of retinal cell type did not exhibit an overt change in the cellular morphology or distribution among the four age/genotype groups, and the electroretinogram responses showed no significant differences in the amplitude or the latency between aged WT mice and aged Mrp4-null mice. Aging would be an insufficient stress to cause some damage to the retina in the presence of MRP4 deficiency