Focus on modern topics in the biology of aging

Responsibility: Vincent J. Cristofalo, Richard Adelman, volume editors ; K. Warner Schaie, series editor.
Imprint: New York : Springer, ©2002.
Physical description: 1 online resource (xvi, 296 pages) : illustrations
Series: Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics ; v. 21.

Online

Contributor: Cristofalo, Vincent J., 1933-; Adelman, Richard C., 1940-; Schaie, K. Warner (Klaus Warner), 1928-

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Demography of populations and global aging: societal implications of the old-old / Kenneth G. Manton
The comparative biology of aging / Steven N. Austad
Why does aging occur? / Thomas B.L. Kirkwood
A conceptual assessment of age-associated physiological changes in mammals / Edward J. Masoro
Cellular aging / R.G. Allen, Arthur K. Balin, and Vincent J. Cristofalo
Cell death in aging / Zahra Zakeri and Richard A. Lockshin
Models in aging research: a critical assessment / Harriet Gershon and David Gershon
Modern approaches to the mechanisms of aging: molecular genetics and genomics / S. Michal Jazwinski
Neuronal environment and age-related neurodegenerative disease: nutritional modification / James A. Joseph, N.A. Denisova, K.A. Youdim, D. Bielinski, D. Fisher, and B. Shukitt-Hale
The genetics of behavioral aging / Gerald E. McClearn
Biological implications of the demography of aging / S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce A. Carnes.

Subjects: Aging.; Developmental biology.; Gerontology.; Old age.; Aging > physiology; Aged > physiology; Aging; Developmental Biology; Geriatrics; Vieillissement.; Biologie du développement.; Gérontologie.; Vieillesse.; gerontology.; old age.; Veroudering (biologie, psychologie)

Start at call number: