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Aging and Human Longevity

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Marie-Françoise Schulz-Aellen

    1. Institutions Universitaires de Gériatrie et de Psychatrie de Genéve, Chêne-Bourg, Genéve, Switzerland

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Mechanisms of Aging

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-6
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    2. Variability of Life Span Between Species

      • Marie-Françoise Schulz-Aellen
      Pages 7-24

    3. Factors That Influence Human Longevity

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      Pages 25-50

    4. Structural and Physiological Changes Occurring with Age

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      Pages 51-76

    5. Theories of Aging

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      Pages 77-84

    6. Mechanisms of Cellular Aging

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      Pages 85-120

    7. Apoptosis, Diseases, and Senescence

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      Pages 121-123

    8. Life Extension

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      Pages 131-141

    9. The Role of Diet in Longevity

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      Pages 142-157

  3. The Prolongation of Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-130
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    2. Antioxidants and the Chemoprevention of Cancers and Cardiovascular Diseases

      • Marie-Françoise Schulz-Aellen
      Pages 158-167

    3. Life Styles

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      Pages 168-189

    4. Substitution of Endogenous Compounds and Hormones

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      Pages 190-200

    5. Medications and Alternative Medicine

      • Marie-Françoise Schulz-Aellen
      Pages 201-206

    6. Surgical Strategies

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      Pages 207-209

    7. Perspectives in the Detection and Treatment of Diseases

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      Pages 210-227

    8. Medications and Alternative Medicine

      • Marie-Françoise Schulz-Aellen
      Pages 201-206

    9. Surgical Strategies

      • Marie-Françoise Schulz-Aellen
      Pages 207-209

    10. Perspectives in the Detection and Treatment of Diseases

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      Pages 210-227
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About this book

The proportion of elderly people continues to increase in the western world-nearly a quarter of the population will be over 65 years by the year 2050. Since aging is accompanied by an increase in diseases and by a deterioration in well-being, finding solutions to these social, medical and psychological problems is necessarily a major goal for society. Scientists and medical practitioners are therefore faced with the urgent task of increasing basic knowledge of the biological processes that cause aging. More resources must be put into this research in order to achieve better understanding of the cellular mechanisms that underlie the differences in life span between species and to answer the difficult questions of why some individuals age more quickly than others, and why some develop liver problems, some have heart problems, and others brain problems. The results of such a wide program of research will provide important information about the causes of many life-threatening and/ or debilitating diseases of old age; it will help find ways to prevent some of the ailments that result from aging, and it may well lead to discoveries enabling the prolongation of human life.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institutions Universitaires de Gériatrie et de Psychatrie de Genéve, Chêne-Bourg, Genéve, Switzerland

    Marie-Françoise Schulz-Aellen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Aging and Human Longevity

  • Authors: Marie-Françoise Schulz-Aellen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2006-0

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-3964-8Published: 01 January 1997

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-2006-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 284

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cell Biology, Life Sciences, general, Biomedicine general

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