Networks in the Biology of Aging: Powerful Tools for a Complex Process

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 243-266

  McCormick, Mark A ^a   Promislow, Daniel E L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

AGING; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GERIATRIC DISORDER; LONGEVITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84929465383     PISSN: 01988794     EISSN: 19444036     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1891/0198-8794.34.243     Document Type: Chapter

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