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Puzzles in modern biology. III.Two kinds of causality in age-related disease
2017-01-10
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The two primary causal dimensions of age-related disease are rate and function. Change in rate of disease development shifts the age of onset. Change in physiological function provides necessary steps in disease progression. A causal factor may alter the rate of physiological change, but that causal factor itself may have no direct physiological role. Alternatively, a causal factor may provide a necessary physiolo...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9b1da357-cfec-5df8-84ed-d874477f319c
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.9789.2