Title: Ageing vulnerability : causes and interventions.
Authors: Bock, Gregory.; Goode, Jamie.
Publisher: Wiley,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Aging; Aging pathology; Aging Molecular aspects Congresses; Degeneration (Pathology) Molecular aspects Congresses.
Contents: The priority of basic research on ageing vulnerability in a comprehensive research agenda on ageing for the 21st century / Gary R. Andrews -- Do alterations in glutathione and iron levels contribute to pathology associated with Parkinson's disease? / Julie K. Andersen -- Specific metal-catalysed protein oxidation reactions in chronic degenerative disorders of ageing : focus on Alzheimer's disease and age-related cataracts / Ashley I. Bush and Lee E. Goldstein -- Multiple substrates of late-onset dementia : implications for brain protection / R.N. Kalaria, C.G. Ballard, P.G. Ince, R.A. Kenny, I.G. McKeith, C.M. Morris, J.T. O'Brien, E.K. Perry, R.H. Perry and J.A. Edwardson -- Ageing of murine small intestinal stem cells / C.S. Potten, K. Martin and T.B. Kirkwood -- Haematopoietic stem cell ageing / Amiela Globerson -- Identification of genes involved in cell senescence and immortalization : potential implications for tissue ageing / James K. Leung and Olivia M. Pereira-Smith -- Ageing and cancer : the telomere and telomerase connection / Jerry W. Shay and Woodring E. Wright -- Ageing and the immune system / Rita B. Effros -- Mechanisms of age-related bone loss / Lis Mosekilde -- The old heart : operating on the edge / Edward G. Lakatta, Steven J. Sollott and Salvatore Pepe -- Pharmaceutical intervention of advanced glycation endproducts / Anthony Cerami and Peter Ulrich -- The anti-ageing action of dietary restriction / Holly Van Remmen, Zhongmao Guo and Arlan Richardson -- Mitochondrial DNA mutations in disease and ageing / D.A. Cottrell, E.L. Blakely, M.A. Johnson, G.M. Borthwick, P.I. Ince and D.M. Turnbull -- A mitochondrial paradigm for degenerative diseases and ageing / Douglas C. Wallace.