Cells, Aging, and Human Disease
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: May 13, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780195140354
Description: "Cells, Aging, and Human Disease examines aging from genes to clinical application, analyzing the cellular changes that underlie human age-related disease.

The text explores both the fundamental processes of human aging and tissue-by-tissue pathology, as it details current research and state-of-the-art clinical interventions in aging and age-related disease."

"Emphasizing human cell mechanisms, the first section of the book presents and analyzes our current knowledge of telomere biology and cell senescence. The text brings the reader up-to-date on telomere maintenance and dynamics.

It explains both the limited and general model of cell senescence as the central component in human clinical aging."--Jacket.