Human biological aging : from macromolecules to organ-systems / Glenda Bilder. -- Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., c2016. – (59.51874/B595)

Contents

Preface

About the Companion Website

Section I  THE FOUNDATION

1 ORIENTATION

2 MEASUREMENTS AND MODELS

3 EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES OF AGING

Section II BASIC COMPONENTS

4 AGING OF MACROMOLECULES

5 AGING OF CELLS

Section  III   ORGAN SYSTEMS: OUTER COVERING AND MOVEMENT: INTEGUMENTARY, SKELETAL MUSCLES, AND SKELETAL SYSTEMS

6 AGING OF THE INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM

7 AGING OF THE SKELETAL MUSCLE SYSTEM

8 AGING OF THE SKELETAL SYSTEM

Section  IV  INTERNAL ORGAN SYSTEMS: CARDIOVASCULAR, PULMONARY, GASTROINTESTINAL, AND URINARY SYSTEMS

9 AGING OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

10 AGING OF THE PULMONARY SYSTEM

11 AGING OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL AND URINARY SYSTEMS      207

Section V   REGULATORY ORGAN SYSTEMS: CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, SENSORY, ENDOCRINE, AND IMMUNE SYSTEMS

12 AGING OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

13 AGING OF THE SENSORY SYSTEM

14 AGING OF THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM

15 AGING OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

Index