Article
The process and theories of aging.
Annals of clinical and laboratory science - 1 Jan 2000
Knight J A
Abstract excerpt
A wide variety of theories to explain the aging process have been proposed including: (1) stochastic (somatic mutation, error catastrophe, protein glycosylation); (2) developmental (immune and neuroendocrine); (3) programmed (genome-based); and (4) free radical. Although no single hypothesis full...
Topics
- Aging
- Apoptosis
- Free Radicals
- Genes
- Glycosylation
- Humans
- Immunity
- Life Expectancy
- Lipid Peroxidation
- Mutation
- Neurosecretory Systems
- Stochastic Processes