Senescence: In search of causality

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 93-98

  Orr, William C ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; CALORIC RESTRICTION; DNA SYNTHESIS; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; TELOMERE;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; CAUSALITY; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ENERGY INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; TELOMERE;

EID: 0029869796     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1996)18:2<93::AID-DVG1>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Review

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