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Aging of Organisms

Aging of Organisms

Osiewacz, H. D.

Hardcover

Series: Biology of Aging and Its Modulation, Book 4

Biology

ISBN10: 1402014066
ISBN13: 9781402014062
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 31 2003
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Biological aging as the time-depending general decline of biological systems associated with a progressively increasing mortality risk is a general phenomenom of great significance. The underlying processes are very complex and depending on genetic and environment factors. These factors encode or affect a network of interconnected cellular pathways. In no system this network has been deciphered in greater detail. However, the strategy of studying various biological systems has let to the identification of pathways and specific modules and makes it obvious that aging is the result of different overlapping mechanisms and pathways. Some of these appear to be conserved (public) among species, others are specific or private and only of significance in one or a few organisms. This volume in the series on Biology of aging and its modulation specifically focuses on organismic aging. The book covers research on organisms from lower to higher complexity representing examples from very diverse taxa like photosynthetic plants, fungi, sponges, nematodes, flies, birds and mammals. Such a broad treatise of this complex topic provides a comprehensive flavor about the current issues dealt with in this rapidly growing scientific discipline.

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