Name: SENESCENCE (HB 2016)
Brand: CBS Publishers and Distributors
SKU: 9789535116813
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As life expectancies among human populations rise, aging becomes a subject of increasing interest across all fields of inquiry: in the study of health and well-being as well as in social, political and cultural studies. Increasingly, there is a desire to discover what the real nature of aging is, how aging relates to physical conditions associated with later life and, most of all, what can be done to slow or even halt its effects. This book presents a scientific view of aging, presenting papers related to the aging process in plants, animals and human beings. The first part focuses on senescence-related disorders, a subject of much current research at the molecular level. It includes research into the molecular mechanisms of cellular senescence and the relationship between mastication and cognition. The second part is balanced between human and non-human studies, and includes discussions leaf senescence and plant aging, and the molecular biomarkers of aging.