Early-life programming of aging and longevity: The idea of high initial damage load (the HIDL hypothesis)

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1019, Issue , 2004, Pages 496-501

  Gavrilov, Leonid A ^a   Gavrilova, Natalia S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Development; Early life; High initial damage load (HIDL); Longevity; Programming

Indexed keywords

AGING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DETERIORATION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PROPHYLAXIS;

EID: 3242731164     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1297.091     Document Type: Conference Paper

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