The genre presents an alternative (though not preferable) model for childhood development: chronological age is diminished by military rank, the binary opposition between soldiers and civilians replaces graduated social distinctions between adults and children, and war disrupts the ostensibly natural developmental processes.
The loss of immune function and progression of collagen cross-linking that normally occurs with advancing age is diminished in some dwarf strains [ 9], and at the cellular level, fibroblasts of dwarf mice are resistant to several forms of stress, including oxidative stress, ultraviolet light, toxic metals and heat [ 10, 11].
But starting in the first half of the 19th century, youth was venerated and age was diminished.
In women and in the elderly, the effect on coronary age was diminished.
Furthermore, aging is associated with diminished bone marrow reserve, which places elderly patients at an increased risk for chemotherapy-related cytopenias [ 30].
Aging is associated with severely diminished thermogenic function [ 10, 11].
Aging is characterized by a diminished response to stress [ 32].
Similarly, the coming-of-age poem "Border Country" is diminished by the gaucheness of the metaphor "life put on the brakes / and pitched you, without notice, / through the windscreen of your youth".
The recruitment of EPCs to promote neovascularization or repair damaged endothelium is diminished by aging.
Aging is associated with cognitive decline, diminished brain function, regional brain atrophy, and disrupted structural and functional brain connectivity.
Our finding that a significantly larger fraction of young MARCKS-cKO and old wild-type ECs contain mucin than young wild-type ependyma is supportive of a model in which mucins are cleared from ependyma and that this capacity is diminished during aging.
