Human Aging: From Cellular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Strategies.

The editors asked the participants writing these chapters to provide about five or six pages of references for each topic that will greatly help anyone doing research in these fields. The chapters cover evolution demographics, pathobiology (age-related diseases), cellular senescence, inflammatory chronic diseases, reactive oxygen species, aging and the immune system, vaccination in the aged, hormesis, sarcopenia, hormonal changes in aging, chronobiology, cognitive decline, lifestyle modulation, nutritional biomarkers for aging, cytomegalovirus infection, ethics of aging, and fighting age-related diseases. Those who teach courses on aging or death and dying may want to supplement these informative chapters with readings on longevity studies among the 92 phyla. [Extracted from the article]

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