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Sixth Edition
Edited By
Edward Masoro, University of Texas, San Antonio, U.S.A.
Steven Austad, University of Idaho, Moscow, U.S.A.
Description
The Handbook of the Biology of Aging, Sixth Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research findings in the biology
of aging. Intended as a summary for researchers, it is also adopted as a high level textbook for graduate and upper level undergraduate
courses.
The Sixth Edition is 20% larger than the Fifth Edition, with 21 chapters summarizing the latest findings in research on the
biology of aging. The content of the work is virtually 100% new. Though a selected few topics are similar to the Fifth Edition, these
chapters are authored by new contributors with new information. The majority of the chapters are completely new in both content and authorship.
The Sixth Edition places greater emphasis and coverage on competing and complementary theories of aging, broadening the discussion
of conceptual issues. Greater coverage of techniques used to study biological issues of aging include computer modeling, gene profiling,
and demographic analyses. Coverage of research on Drosophilia is expanded from one chapter to four. New chapters on mammalian models
discuss aging in relation to skeletal muscles, body fat and carbohydrate metabolism, growth hormone, and the human female reproductive
system. Additional new chapters summarize exciting research on stem cells and cancer, dietary restriction, and whether age related diseases
are an integral part of aging.
The Handbook of the Biology of Aging, Sixth Edition is part of the Handbooks on Aging series, including
Handbook of the Psychology of Aging and Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, also in their 6th editions.
Audience
Gerontological researchers, developmental psychologists, sociologists, practioners dealing with aging populations, biologists involved in aging research, & medical researchers.
Contents
HANDBOOK OF THE BIOLOGY OF AGING, 6e
Edited by Edward J. Masoro and Steve Austad
Section I: Conceptual and Technical Issues
Chapter
1
Reliability Theory of Aging and Longevity
Leonid A. Gavrilov and Natalia S. Gavrilova
Chapter 2 - Are Age-Associated Diseases an Integral
Part of Aging?
Edward J. Masoro
Chapter 3 - Dietary Restriction, Hormesis and Small Molecule Mimetics
David A. Sinclair and Konrad T.
Howitz
Chapter 4 - Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Aging, and Cancer
Deborah Bell and Gary Van Zant
Chapter 5 - Mitochondria: A Critical
Role in Aging
Tamara Golden, Karl Morten, Felicity Johnson, Enrique Samper, and Simon Melov
Chapter 6 - P53 and Mouse Aging Models
Cathy
Gatza, George Hinkal, Lynette Moore, Melissa Dumble, and Lawrence A. Donehower
Chapter 7 - Complex Genetic Architecture of Drosophila
Longevity
Trudy Mackay, Natalia V. Roshina, Jeff W. Leips, and Elena G. Pasyukova
Chapter 8 - Evolutionary Biology of Aging: Future
Directions
Daniel Promislow, Ken Fedorka, and Joep Burger
Chapter 9 - Senescence in Wild Populations of Mammals and Birds
Anja Brunet-Rossini
and Steven N. Austad
Chapter 10 - Biodemography of Aging and Age-Specific Mortality in Drosophila melanogaster
James Curtsinger, Natalia
S. Gavrilova, and Leonid A. Gavrilov
Chapter 11 - Microarray Analysis of Gene Expression Changes in Aging
F. Noel Hudson, Matt Kaeberlein,
Nancy Linford, David Pritchard, Richard Beyer, and Peter S. Rabinovitch
Chapter 12 - Computer Modeling in the Study of Aging
Thomas
Kirkwood, Richard Boys, Colin Gillespie, Carole Procter, Daryl Shanley, and Darren Wilkenson
Section II: Non-Mammalian Models
Chapter
13 - Dissecting the Processes of Aging Using the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
Thomas E. Johnson, Samuel T. Henderson, Shane Rea
Chapter
14 - Genetic Manipulation of Life span in Drosophila. Melanogaster
Daniel Ford and John Tower
Chapter 15 - Juvenile and Steroid Hormones
in Drosophila melanogaster Longevity
Meng-Ping Tu, Thomas Flatt,, Marc Tatar
Chapter 16 - A Critical Evaluation of Nonmammalian Models
for Aging Research
Steven N. Austad, Andrej Podlutsky
Section III: Mammalian Models
Chapter 17 - Differential Aging Among Skeletal
MusclesRoger J. M. McCarter
Chapter 18 - Aging, Body Fat, and Carbohydrate Metabolism
Marielisa Rincon, Radhika Muzumdar, and Nir Barzilai
Chapter 19 - Growth and Aging: Why do Big Dogs Die young?
Richard Miller and Steven N. Austad
Chapter 20 - Growth Hormone, Insulin-Like
Growth Factor-1 and the Biology of Aging
Christy S. Carter and William E. Sonntag
Chapter 21 - Aging of the Female Reproductive System
Phyllis Wise
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 680 pages, publication date: DEC-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-088387-5
ISBN-10: 0-12-088387-2
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
Price: Order form
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EUR 98.95
USD 109
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Last update: 12 Jul 2008
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