Aging Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Medicine)
Contributors: Yvonne A. Barnett (Editor); Christopher R. Barnett (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: June 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780896035829
Subjects: Maturation & ageing; Medical equipment & techniques; Molecular aspects; Life Sciences - Biochemistry; Science/Mathematics; Cytology; Enzymology; Science; Medical / Nursing; Life Sciences - Cytology; Life Sciences - Biology - Developmental Biology; Biochemistry; Life Sciences - Biology - Molecular Biology; Medical / Geriatrics; Aging; Laboratory manuals
First sentence: Enormous advances in our understanding of human aging have occurred during the last 50 yr.
Description: Yvonne and Christopher Barnett and a team of recognized international experts detail key biochemical, analytical, and molecular techniques for the investigation of aging at the cellular, tissue, organ, and whole system levels. These cutting-edge methods address a wide range of research needs, from uncovering the factors associated with cell senescence and death, to exploring alterations in the body's ability both to metabolize xenobiotics and to defend itself against biomolecular damage. State-of-the-art protocols also measure the morphological, functional, and molecular changes that accumulate within mitochrondria over time, and permit the genetic and functional characteristics of the immune system to be determined. Wide ranging and highly practical, Aging Methods and Protocols provides today's molecular gerontologists, pharmacologists, and clinical investigators with a gold-standard collection of readily reproducible techniques for identifying those key cellular and molecular processes that might one day make it possible to regulate the aging process. (Publisher's Description).