Ageing as a risk factor for disease

Current Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Niccoli, Teresa ^a   Partridge, Linda ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF AGEING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; AUTOPHAGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DNA DAMAGE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MITOCHONDRION; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME;

AGING; AUTOPHAGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DNA DAMAGE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MITOCHONDRIA; NEOPLASMS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

INVERTEBRATA; MUS;

EID: 84866183226     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.07.024     Document Type: Review

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