Organ/body weight loss with aging: evidence for co-ordinated involution

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 59-62

  Spencer, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INVOLUTION; JAPAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0029916941     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(96)90000-6     Document Type: Article

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