Molecular biology of aging
By: edited by Leonard P. Guarente, Linda Partridge, Douglas C. Wallace.
Contributors: Guarente, Leonard.; Partridge, Linda.; Wallace, Douglas C.
Series: Monograph -- 51; Cold Spring Harbor monograph series -- 51.
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780879698249
Subjects: Aging -- Molecular aspects; Aging -- physiology; Aging -- genetics; Cell Aging -- physiology; Molecular Biology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The human mitochondrion and pathophysiology of aging and age-related diseases / D.C. Wallace; title: Sirtuins : a universal link between NAD, metabolism, and aging / S. Imai and L.P. Guarente; title: Calorie restriction in lower organisms / S.L. Helfand, J.H. Bauer, and J.G. Wood; title: Evolutionary theory in aging research / S.N. Austad and T.B.L. Kirkwood; title: An overview of the biology of aging : a human perspective / G.M. Martin and C.E. Finch; title: P53, cancer, and longevity / L.A. Donehower and A.J. Levine; title: Aging processes in caenorhabditis elegans / H.A. Tissenbaum and T.E. Johnson; title: Cellular senescence : a link between tumor suppression and organismal aging? / J.M. Sedivy, U.M. Munoz-Najar, J.C. Jeyapalan, and J. Campisi; title: Genome-wide views of aging gene networks / S.K. Kim; title: Aging in mammalian stem cells and other self-renewing compartments / D.J. Rossi and N.E. Sharpless; title: Yeast, a feast : the fruit fly Drosophila as a model organism for research into aging / L. Partridge and J. Tower; title: DNA repair and aging / V.A. Bohr ... [et al.]; title: Extended life span in mice with reduction in the GH/IGF-1 axis / J.J. Kopchick, A. Bartke, and D.E. Berryman; title: Alzheimer's disease : genetics, pathogenesis, models, and experimental therapeutics / P.C. Wong ... [et al.]; title: How does caloric restriction increase the longevity of mammals? / R. Weindruch .. [et al.]; title: The determination of aging rate by coordinated resistance to multiple forms of stress / G.J. Lithgow and R.A. Miller; title: Molecular mechanisms of aging : insights from budding yeast / S.-J. Lin and D. Sinclair; title: Genetics of exceptional longevity / T.T. Perls and P. Sebastiani; title: Mammalian metabolism in aging / P. Puigserver and C.R. Kahn; title: Telomeres and telomerase in aging and cancer / J.W. Shay and W.E. Wright.