Adaptations in aging

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Adaptations in aging

edited by J.L.C. Dall ... [et al.]

(Sandoz lectures in gerontology, 1994)

Academic Press, c1995

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Includes bibliographies and index

Some printings have preliminary pagination: xxiv p.

Description and Table of Contents

Description

These contributions from gerontological researchers address the four key themes of: eating for health; preserving sensory capacity; understanding brain disease; and living in retirement.

Table of Contents

  • Opening address - scanning probe microscopy (imaging of single atoms, molecules and measuring of biomolecular interactions), H.J. Guntherodt
  • behavioural and biological determinants of osteoporosis in older women - the Rancho Bernardo study, E. Barrett-Connor
  • nutrition in the prevention and treatment of osteoporisis, C.C. Johnston, Jr. and C.W. Slemenda
  • ageing, the vitamin D system and osteoporosis, H.F. DeLuca
  • proteins and bone health, J.-P. Bonjour et al
  • biological basis of lifespan modulation by nutrition, G.S. Roth et al
  • looking old age in the mouth, R. Yemm
  • the lifelong preservation of sight, R. Weale
  • optokinetic consequences for balance, J.L. Cardenas and L. Lay-Son
  • impairment of auditory and vestibular function in the elderly, C.R. Pfaltz et al
  • Alzheimer's disease - from families to genes, M. Mullan
  • animal models of Alzheimer's disease, M. Wragg and A. Goate
  • apolipoprotein E-e4 and apolipoprotein E-e2 are susceptibility genes that affect the rate of disease expressivity of late-onset familial and sporadic Alzheimer disease, A.D. Roses
  • cytoskeleton defects in neurons, A. Delacourte and P. Vermersch
  • novel neuronal mechanisms in the normal and Parkinsonian substania nigra, S.A. Greenfield
  • society's adaptation to its own age, A. Walker
  • what can we learn from the EURONET-SENECA study? functionally capable for what?, M. Schroll et al
  • dietary habits and attitudes in healthy elderly, D. Schlettwien-Gsell and D. Barclay
  • setting goals for retirement - the choice is yours, H.G. Goyns
  • strategies to delay dysfunction in later life, R.N. Butler.

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