Aging and longevity in the simplest animals and the quest for immortality

Ageing Research Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 66-82

  Petralia, Ronald S ^a   Mattson, Mark P ^b   Yao, Pamela J ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilateria; Cnidaria; Hydra; Metazoa; Neoblast; Planaria

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; ANNELID; ARTHROPOD; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BILATERIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL AGING; CELL CLONE; CELL CULTURE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL TYPE; CHOANOFLAGELLATE; CHORDATA; CILIATE; CLAM; CNIDARIA; CORAL; CRUSTACEA; CTENOPHORA; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DROSOPHILA; FISH; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; HYDRA; JELLYFISH; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MOLLUSC; MYXOZOA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OYSTER; PHYLUM; PLACOZOA; PLATYHELMINTH; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PROTEIN HOMEOSTASIS; REVIEW; SEA ANEMONE; SNAIL; SPONGE (PORIFERA); TELOMERE; TISSUE REGENERATION; TOTIPOTENT STEM CELL; TREMATODE; YEAST; AGE; EVOLUTION; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CILIOPHORA; CNIDARIA; HUMANS; HYDRA; INVERTEBRATES; LONGEVITY; PLATYHELMINTHS; PORIFERA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; YEASTS;

EID: 84903755582     PISSN: 15681637     EISSN: 18729649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2014.05.003     Document Type: Review

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