Old age as a privilege of the "selfish ones"

Aging and Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 139-146

  Davidovic, Mladen ^a   Sevo, Goran ^b   Svorcan, Petar ^a   Milosevic, Dragoslav ^a   Despotovic, Nebojsa ^a   Erceg, Predrag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b The Institute for Gerontology   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Aging; Elderly; Genetic instability; Intra individual variability; Longevity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890850952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21525250     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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