Somatic mutations and ageing

Mutation Research - Reviews in Mutation Research

Volumn 463, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 173-178

  Holliday, Robin ^a  

^a 12 Roma Court ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Free radical theory; Multiple theories of ageing; Senescence; Somatic mutation theory

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; FREE RADICAL;

ARTICLE; CELL AGING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SOMATIC MUTATION; THEORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; CELL AGING; CELLS, CULTURED; CHILD; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FIBROBLASTS; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 20TH CENT.; HUMAN; INSECTS; LONGEVITY; LYMPHOCYTES; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PLOIDIES;

EID: 0033804699     PISSN: 13835742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5742(00)00048-X     Document Type: Article

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