Mammal aging: Active and passive mechanisms and their medical implications

Bioscience Hypotheses

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 59-64

  Goldsmith, Theodore C ^a  

^a Azinet LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Gerontology

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXERCISE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; KIN SELECTION; LIFESPAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRESS; THEORY VALIDATION; WERNER SYNDROME;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 61849143300     PISSN: 17562392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bihy.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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