Aging and red blood cell membrane: A study of centenarians

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-57

  Caprari, Patrizia ^a   Scuteri, Angelo ^a   Salvati, Anna Maria ^a   Bauco, Claudia ^c   Cantafora, Alfredo ^b   Masella, Roberta ^b   Modesti, Daniela ^b   Tarzia, Anna ^a   Marigliano, Vincenzo ^c  

^a Laboratorio di Biochimica Clinica   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Centenarians; Erythrocyte; Membrane lipids; Membrane proteins

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; MEMBRANE PHOSPHOLIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIPID COMPOSITION; MALE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS;

EID: 0033012138     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(98)00055-2     Document Type: Article

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