The physiology of ageing

Medicine (United Kingdom)

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-8

  Navaratnarajah, Arunraj ^a   Jackson, Stephen H D ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ageing; frailty; physiology; senescence

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; PEPSIN A; VASOPRESSIN;

AGING; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; B LYMPHOCYTE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CAROTID SINUS SYNDROME; CELL AGING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; DECUBITUS; ELASTOLYSIS; FAINTNESS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART OUTPUT; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; KIDNEY MASS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEMORY; MONOCYTE; MOOD; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERISTALSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN; SKIN INJURY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE; STOMACH PH; SWALLOWING; THERMOREGULATION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOPRESSIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84871601190     PISSN: 13573039     EISSN: 13654357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2012.10.009     Document Type: Article

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