Models of Systems Failure in Aging

Handbook of Models for Human Aging

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 45-67

  Gavrilov, Leonid A ^a   Gavrilova, Natalia S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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