Aging as a mitochondria-mediated atavistic program: Can aging be switched off?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1057, Issue , 2005, Pages 145-164

  Skulachev, Vladimir P ^a   Longo, Valter D ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mitochondria; Programmed death; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SCAVENGER;

AGING; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; CELL AGING; COLLECTIVE APOPTOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRION; MITOPTOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOPTOSIS; SUICIDE; YEAST;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 32244431625     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1356.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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