Molecular Mechanisms and Models of Aging, Volume 1119

by Ioannis P. Trougakos, Niki Chondrogianni, Stathis Gonos

Aging is an inevitable consequence of life for nearly all organisms. It mostly reflects the outcome of complicated interactions between genetic factors along with the accumulation of a variety of deleterious stochastic changes over time. Thus, aging is an adaptive process, not caused by a single factor or process, but it is rather a multifactorial procedure modulated by the interplay among genetic and environmental factors. In the coming years, human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573316865
• ISBN13: 9781573316866
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 324 Pages