Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of models for human aging / editor, P. Michael Conn.

Publication

Burlington, MA : Elsevier Academic Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

Conn, P. Michael.

Description

xxi, 1075 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Subjects

• Aging
• Aging > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Models, Biological
• Models, Animal

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Historical development of animal models of aging / Richard L. Sprott and Steven N. Austad -- 2. Species selection in comparative studies of aging and antiaging research / Joao Pedro de Magalhaes -- 3. Principles of animal use for gerontological research / Richard A. Miller -- 4. From primary cultures to the aging organism : lessons from human T lymphocytes / Rita B. Effros -- 5. Models of systems failure in aging / Leonid A. Gavrilov and Natalia S. Gavrilova -- 6. Major issues in ethics of aging research / Michael D. Smith -- 7. Ethical aspects of research involving elderly persons / Paul S. Mueller and C. Christopher Hook -- 8. SAGE KE and other online sources related to aging / Evelyn Strauss and R. John Davenport -- 9. Proteomics in aging research / Christian Schoneich -- 10. Application of high-throughput technologies to aging-related research / Matt Kaeberlein -- 11. Models of Alzheimer's disease / Harry LeVine III and Lary C. Walker -- 12. Age-related hippocampal dysfunction : early Alzheimer's disease vs. normal aging / Scott A. Small -- 13. Epidemiology in aging research / Hermann Brenner and Volker Arndt -- 14. Statistical issues for longevity studies in animal models / Chenxi Wang, Scott W. Keith, Kevin R. Fontaine and David B. Allison -- 15. Models for the study of infection in populations / John R. Williams -- 16. Estimation of the rate of production of oxygen radicals by mitochondria / Alberto Sanz and Gustavo Barja -- 17. Telomeres and aging in the yeast model system / Kurt W. Runge -- 18. Longevity and aging in budding yeast / Matt Kaeberlein -- 19. From yeast Methuselah genes to evolutionary medicine / Paola Fabrizio and Valter D. Longo -- 20. Strongyloides ratti : a nematode with extraordinary plasticity in aging / Michael P. Gardner, David Gems and Mark E. Viney -- 21. Insect models for the study of aging / Klaus-Gunter Collatz -- 22. Drosophila models of aging / Satomi Miwa and Alan Cohen -- 23. Models of aging in honeybee workers / Gro V. Amdam and Olav Rueppell -- 24. Ants as naturally long-lived insect models for aging / Joel D. Parker and Karen M. Parker -- 25. Gene expression and the extended longevity phenotypes of Drosophila melanogaster / Robert Arking -- 26. Annual fish as a genetic model for aging / Pudur Jagadeeswaran -- 27. The use of mature zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a model for human aging and disease / Evan T. Keller, Jill M. Keller and Gavin Gillespie -- 28. Zebrafish as aging models / Shuji Kishi -- 29. Telomeres in aging : birds / Susan E. Swanberg and Mary E. Delany -- 30. Domestic and wild bird models for the study of aging / Donna J. Holmes and Mary Ann Ottinger -- 31. A transgenic mini rat strain as a tool for studying aging and calorie restriction / Isao Shimokawa -- 32. Rat models of age-related cognitive decline / Jennifer L. Bizon and Michelle M. Nicolle -- 33. Aged rodents for biogerontology research / Nancy L. Nadon -- 34. Life extension in the dwarf mouse / Andrzej Bartke -- 35. The canine model of human brain aging : cognition, behavior, and neuropathology / P. Dwight Tapp and Christina T. Siwak -- 36. Bats as a novel model for aging research / Anja K. Brunet-Rossinni and Rocco E. Rossinni -- 37. Memory in the aging hippocampus : what can place cells tell us? / Iain A. Wilson -- 38. The Rhesus Macaque as a model of human aging and age-related disease / Mary Ann Ottinger, Julie A. Mattison, Mary B. Zelinski, Julie M. Wu, Steven G. Kohama, George S. Roth, Mark A. Lane and Donald K. Ingram -- 39. Nonhuman primates as a models for reproductive aging and human infertility / Barry D. Bavister and Carol A. Brenner -- 40. Neurobiology of the aging brain / Carlo Bertoni-Freddari, Patrizia Fattoretti, Tiziana Casoli and Giuseppina Di Stefano -- 41. Mitochondrial DNA and aging / Mikhail Alexeyev, Susan P. LeDoux and Glenn L. Wilson -- 42. Models for apoptosis : from newborn to adult / Christiane Charriaut-Marlangue and Sylvain Renolleau -- 43. Age-related changes in hormones and their receptors in animal models of female reproductive senescence / Jacqueline A. Maffucci and Andrea C. Gore -- 44. Models of chaperones in aging / Jens Kroll and J. O. Nehlin -- 45. Therapeutic potential of stem cells in aging-related diseases / Shannon Whirledge, Kirk C. Lo and Dolores J. Lamb -- 46. Nuclear transfer and cloning : preservaton or expansion of proliferative lifespan? / Keith E. Latham -- 47. Human models of longevity / Thomas Perls -- 48. Computational models of mitochondrial DNA in aging / David C. Samuels -- 49. Mouse models of accelerated aging / Jan Vijg and Paul Hasty -- 50. Models, definitions, and criteria of frailty / David B. Hogan -- 51. Fertility and aging men : an introduction to the male biological clock / Peter N. Schlegel, Puneet Masson, Sarah M. Lambert and Harry Fisch -- 52. Benign prostatic hyperplasia / Peter Celec -- 53. Murine models of infectious diseases in the aged / Kevin P. High -- 54. Studying infection in the elderly : physiopathology, clinical symptoms and causative agents of pneumonia / Jean-Paul Janssens -- 55. Diabetes and aging / Tamas Fulop, Anis Larbi, Daniel Tessier and Andre Carpentier -- 56. Diabetes as a model of premature aging / Arshag D. Mooradian -- 57. Frailty as a model of aging / Jeremy D. Walston -- 58. Osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease in the elderly / Samy I. McFarlane, John Nicasio and Ranganath Muniyappa -- 59. Depression in older patients / Kiran Rabheru -- 60. The aging human lung : age-associated changes in structure and function / Keith C. Meyer -- 61. Iceland as a model for human aging / Adalsteinn Gudmundsson and Palmi V. Jonsson -- 62. Behavior and personality in the study of successful aging / Judith Corr and Loraine Tarou -- 63. Andropause / Rabih Hijazi and Glenn R. Cunningham -- 64. Aging and the perceptual organization of sounds : a change of scene? / Claude Alain, Benjamin J. Dyson and Joel S. Snyder -- 65. Models of immune function in aging / Christopher A. Jolly and Zhun Xu -- 66. Human T cell clones in long-term culture as models for the impact of chronic antigenic stress in aging / Graham Pawelec, Erminia Mariani, Rafael Solana, Rosalyn Forsey, Anis Larbi, Simone Neri, Olga Dela Rosa, Yvonne Barnett, Jon Tolson and Tamas Fulop -- 67. Age-related changes in the human retina / Carlo Cavallotti and Nicola Pescosolido -- 68. Models of age-related vision problems / J. Fielding Hejtmancik, Mark Kantorow and Takeshi Iwata -- 69. Health, functional and therapeutic implications of obesity in aging / R. Lee Kennedy and E. Y. H. Khoo -- 70. Age and joints / Klaus Bobacz and Ilse-Gerlinde Sunk -- 71. Sleep quality in the elderly / Ragnar Asplund -- 72. Atherogenesis and aging / Cam Patterson -- 73. Managing menopausal symptoms / Mary Ellen Rousseau -- 74. Psychological aging : a contextual view / Hans-Werner Wahl and Frieder R. Lang -- 75. Nutrients and aging / Lawrence J. Whalley -- 76. Methods for studying hearing impairment and auditory problems of the aged / Robert D. Frisina and D. Robert Frisina -- 77. A model for understanding the pathomechanics of osteoarthritis in aging / Thomas P. Andriacchi and Annegret Mundermann -- 78. Aging and cardiovascular angiogenesis models / Andrew Chin, Jacquelyn M. Holm, Inga J. Duignan and Jay M. Edelberg -- 79. Models for the study of stroke / Thiruma V. Arumugam and Mark P. Mattson -- 80. Werner syndrome as a model of human aging / Raymond J. Monnat, Jr. -- 81. Models of sarcopenia / Alfred L. Fisher -- 82. Aging of human skin / Paolo U. Giacomoni -- 83. Models of hypertension in aging / Jane F. Reckelhoff, Radu Iliescu, Licy Yanes and Lourdes A. Fortepiani.

ISBN

0123693918 (casebound : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005026227
• 9780123693914

OCLC

• ocm61499966
• SCSB-5241420

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries