Article
Ageing: definitions, mechanisms and the magnitude of the problem.
Best practice & research. Clinical gastroenterology - 1 Dec 2001
Balcombe N R, Sinclair A
Abstract excerpt
All multi-cellular organisms undergo change with time. Conception heralds the onset of growth and development, leading to reproductive competence and propagation of the species. With time, organisms age, leading to death as a final end-point. Whilst our knowledge and definitions of growth and reproduction are firmly established, the concept of ageing remains less well understood. One of the reasons for the lack...
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