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9780521112611

The Biology of Human Ageing

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521112611

  • ISBN10:

    0521112613

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-06-04
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The processes that control senescence have been the subject of more then a century of serious biological research. Two institutions closely involved in this programme, the Society for the Study of Human Biology and the British Society for Research in Ageing, held a joint symposium in 1984 to consider human ageing and longevity from an interdisciplinary point of view. The resulting book has four main sections: the evolution and genetics of ageing, biological age assessment, demographic and social aspects, and the nutritional and physiological aspects of ageing and longevity. The fundamental nature of the subject will generate interest across a wide range of biological and medical disciplines.

Table of Contents

Preface
Ageing as a consequence of natural selection
Genetic information in ageing cells
Insects as models for testing theories of ageing
Human cell culture systems in the study of ageing
Estimation of biological maturity in the older child
Biological age assessment in adulthood
Skeletal age and palaeodemography
Cell death and the loss of structural units of organs
The prospects for mortality decline and consequent changes in age structure of the population
Where do old people come from? An evaluation of American population projections
Age structure of Soviet population in the Caucasus: facts and myths
The health of an ageing population
Can we tell our age from our biochemistry
Dietary manipulation of ageing: an animal model
Customary physical activity in the elderly
Effects of ageing on human homeostasis
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