Aging, cancer and age-related diseases
Subtitle: common mechanisms?
By: issue editor, Robert M. Tanguay
Contributors: International Association of Biomedical Gerontology. International Congress
Series: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences -- v. 1197; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences -- v. 1197.
Publisher: Published by Blackwell Pub. on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781573317962
Subjects: Age factors; Genetics; Diseases; Cancer; Age Factors; Neoplasms; Aspect génétique; Personnes âgées; Congrès; Congresses; Genetic aspects; Effets de l'âge; Older people; Aged; Maladies
Notes: Cover title.

"This volume presents manuscripts stemming from the 13th Congress of the International Association of Biomedical Gerontology entitled 'Aging, Cancer, and Age-Related Diseases: common Mechanisms?' held on May 18-20, 2009 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada"--P. [iii].

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to Aging, cancer, and age-related diseases; title: Why aging research? : the moral imperative to retard human aging; title: Age-related behavioral changes in Drosophila; title: A screen for genes involved in respiration control and longevity in Schizosaccharomyces pombe; title: Targeting the age-related occurrence, removal, and accumulation of molecular damage by hormesis; title: Biological significance of protein modifications in aging and calorie restriction; title: Ascorbate improves metabolic abnormalities in Wrn mutant mice but not the free radical scavenger catechin; title: Evaluating the role of p38 MAP kinase in growth of Werner syndrome fibroblasts; title: Decreasing the aging velocity in industry workers; title: Mitochondrial pathways governing stress resistance, life, and death in the fungal aging model Podospora anserina; title: Protection from aging by small chaperones : a trade-off with cancer?; title: HSPB1, actin filament dynamics, and aging cells; title: Chaperonopathies of senescence and the scrambling of interactions between the chaperoning and the immune systems; title: Exogenous mammalian extracellular HSP70 reduces endotoxin manifestations at the cellular and organism levels; title: Cellular aging and centrosome aberrations; title: Synchronization of posttranslational modifications during aging : time is a crucial biological dimension; title: Molecular bridging of aging and cancer : a CARF link; title: Emerging role of the MORF/MRG gene family in various biological processes, including aging; title: Transcriptome analysis and tumor suppressor requirements of STAT5-induced senescence; title: Major heat shock protein Hsp72 controls oncogene-induced senescence; title: Potential role of immunosenescence in cancer development; title: Tissue engineering of skin and cornea : development of new models for in vitro studies; title: Hyperbaric oxygen treatment induces antioxidant gene expression; title: Longevity health sciences and mental health as future medicine; title: The marvel of percutaneous cardiovascular devices in the elderly.