Aging as a particular case of phenoptosis, the programmed death of an organism (A response to Kirkwood and Melov "On the programmed/nonprogrammed nature of ageing within the life history")

Aging

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1120-1123

  Skulachev, Vladimir P ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 83755206825     PISSN: 19454589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/aging.100403     Document Type: Letter

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