Genetic instability as the primary cause of human aging

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 21, Issue 4-5, 1986, Pages 283-319

  Strehler, Bernard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL; OXYGEN; RIBOSOME DNA;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DNA DAMAGE; ETIOLOGY; GENE LOSS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEREDITY; LIFESPAN; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGING; ANIMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DOGS; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; MICE; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PEROXIDES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0023024608     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0531-5565(86)90038-0     Document Type: Article

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