Maximum life span predictions from the Gompertz mortality model

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1996, Pages

  Finch, Caleb E ^a   Pike, Malcolm C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DIET RESTRICTION; ENVIRONMENT; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESPAN; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029867807     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/51A.3.B183     Document Type: Article

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