Handbook of the biology of aging
Handbook of the Biology of Aging, Eighth Edition, provides readers with an update on the rapid progress in the research of aging. It is a comprehensive synthesis and review of the latest and most important advances and themes in modern biogerontology, and focuses on the trend of 'big data'...
| Other Authors: | Kaeberlein, Matt, 1971-, Martin, George M., 1927-, ScienceDirect (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Amsterdam :
Elsevier Ltd.,
2016.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xvi, 559 pages) : illustrations. |
| Edition: | Eighth edition. |
| Series: |
Handbooks of aging ;
v. 3. |
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Table of Contents:
- I. Basic Mechanisms of Aging: Models and Systems
- 1 Longevity as a Complex Genetic Trait
- 2 The mTOR Pathway and Aging
- 3 Sirtuins, Healthspan, and Longevity in Mammals
- 4 The Hypoxic Response and Aging
- 5 The Role of Neurosensory Systems in the Modulation of Aging
- 6 The Naked Mole-Rat: A Resilient Rodent Model of Aging, Longevity, and Healthspan
- 7 Contributions of Telomere Biology to Human Age-Related Disease
- 8 Systems Approaches to Understanding Aging
- 9 Integrative Genomics of Aging
- 10 NIA Interventions Testing Program: A Collaborative Approach for Investigating Interventions to Promote Healthy Aging
- 11 Comparative Biology of Aging: Insights from Long-Lived Rodent Species
- II. The Pathobiology of Human Aging
- 12 Genetics of Human Aging
- 13 The Aging Arterial Wall
- 14 Age-Related Alterations in Neural Plasticity
- 15 The Aging Immune System: Dysregulation, Compensatory Mechanisms, and Prospects for Intervention
- 16 Vascular Disease in Hutchinson Gilford Progeria Syndrome and Aging: Common Phenotypes and Potential Mechanisms
- 17 Cardiac Aging
- 18 Current Status of Research on Trends in Morbidity, Healthy Life Expectancy, and the Compression of Morbidity
- 19 On the Compression of Morbidity: From 1980 to 2015 and Beyond.