"Dividends" from research on aging - Can biogerontologists, at long last, find something useful to do?

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 157-160

  Miller, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Health; Interventions; Longevity

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARCINOGEN; VACCINE;

ADRENAL GLAND; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CANCER RESISTANCE; CELL FUNCTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; COXITIS; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET RESTRICTION; DISABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FERTILITY; GENE MUTATION; GERIATRIC DISORDER; GERONTOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; LOW CALORY DIET; LOW TEMPERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEOPLASM; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRECANCER; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SHORT STATURE; SKIN DEFECT; STARVATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND; AGED; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; FORECASTING; GERIATRICS; INTERVENTION STUDY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EQUIDAE; MUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; FORECASTING; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LONGEVITY; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 64949146684     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/gln062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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