Does aging stop?

Current Aging Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-11

  Shahrestani, Parvin ^a   Mueller, Laurence D ^a   Rose, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Force of natural selection; Late life; Lifelong heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449714093     PISSN: 18746098     EISSN: 18746128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874609810902010003     Document Type: Article

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