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Roger McDonald, University of California, Davis, USA Biology of Aging presents the biological principles that have led to a new understanding of the causes of aging and describes how these basic principles help one to understand the human experience of biological aging, longevity, and age-related disease. Written for undergraduate biology students, it describes: • How the rate of biological aging is measured; • Mechanisms underlying cellular aging; • Genetic pathways that affect longevity in various organisms; • Normal age-related changes and the functional decline that occurs in physiological systems over the lifespan; • The implications of modulating the rate of aging and longevity.
CONTENTS
August 2013 360 pages • 239 illustrations Paperback • 978-0-8153-4213-7 £42.00
1. Basic Concepts in the Biology of Aging 2. Measuring Biological Aging 3. Evolutionary Theories of Longevity and Aging 4. Cellular Aging 5. Genetics of Longevity
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6. Plant Senescence 7. Human Longevity 8. The Physiology of Human Aging 9. Age-Related Disease in Humans 10. Modulating Aging and Longevity