Oxidative stress in aging : from model systems to human diseases /

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Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Springer, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 320 p.) : ill.
Language:English
Series:Aging medicine
Aging Medicine.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8886578
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Other authors / contributors:Miwa, Satomi.
Beckman, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Bruce)
Muller, Florian L.
ISBN:9781597454209
1597454206
9781588299918
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Oxidative Stress in Aging: From Model Systems to Human Diseases discusses the role of free radicals in aging in different animal models, as well as the relevance of free radicals on age-related diseases and pathological conditions in humans (following an introduction section of the basics and theory of free radicals). Human aging is a complex phenomenon - not everyone gets the same diseases and dies from the same cause. Accumulating reports implicate the connection between free radicals and various diseases and age-related pathological conditions. Although the causal relationships have not bee.
Other form:Print version: Oxidative stress in aging. 1st ed. New York : Springer, 2008 9781588299918 1588299910