Free‐Radical Theory of Aging: Increasing the Functional Life Span

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 717, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 1-15

  HARMAN, DENHAM ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; FREE RADICAL; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; MERCAPTOETHANOL; PROTEIN;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALORIC INTAKE; CANCER; CELL DAMAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEATH; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DNA DAMAGE; GLYCATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESPAN; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN INTAKE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 0028223426     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1994.tb12069.x     Document Type: Article

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