Open access peer-reviewed Edited Volume

Senescence

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Tetsuji Nagata
Tetsuji Nagata

Shinshu University,
Japan

Published29 February 2012

Doi10.5772/1905

ISBN978-953-51-0144-4

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-953-51-4340-6

Copyright year2012

Number of pages864

The book "Senescence" is aimed to describe all the phenomena related to aging and senescence of all forms of life on Earth, i.e. plants, animals and the human beings. The book contains 36 carefully reviewed chapters written by different authors, aiming to describe the aging and senescent changes of living creatures, i.e. plants and animals.

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Table of Contents

Open access  chapters

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3. Metabolic Regulation of Leaf Senescence in Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) Plants

By Eloísa Agüera, Purificación Cabello, Lourdes de la Mata, Estefanía Molina and Purificación de la Haba

3,185
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4. Functional Approaches to Study Leaf Senescence in Sunflower

By Paula Fernandez, Sebastián Moschen, Norma Paniego and Ruth A. Heinz

2,377
4
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6. Some Aspects of Leaf Senescence

By Hafsi Miloud and Guendouz Ali

3,654
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7. Advances in Plant Senescence

By Kieron D. Edwards, Matt Humphry and Juan Pablo Sanchez-Tamburrino

5,168
8. The Legume Root Nodule: From Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation to Senescence

By Laurence Dupont, Geneviève Alloing, Olivier Pierre, Sarra El Msehli, Julie Hopkins, Didier Hérouart and Pierre Frendo

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9. The Nucleolus and Ribosomal Genes in Aging and Senescence

By Nadine Hein, Elaine Sanij, Jaclyn Quin, Katherine M. Hannan, Austen Ganley and Ross D. Hannan

3,491
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10. Senescence in Animals: Why Evolutionary Theories Matter

By Thiago Monaco, Daniel Silvestre and Paulo S. P. Silveira

2,451
11. The Quest for Immortality in Triatomines: A Meta-Analysis of the Senescence Process in Hemimetabolous Hematophagous Insects

By Paula Medone, Jorge Rabinovich, Eliana Nieves, Soledad Ceccarelli, Delmi Canale, Raúl L. Stariolo and Frédéric Menu

2,069
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12. Programming and Implementation of Age-Related Changes

By Jaba Tkemaladze, Alexander Tavartkiladze and Konstantin Chichinadze

2,768
13. Cellular Degradation Machineries in Age-Related Loss of Muscle Mass (Sarcopenia)

By Mikael Altun, Max Grönholdt-Klein, Lingzhan Wang and Brun Ulfhake

2,474
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18. Cellular Senescence and Its Relation with Telomere

By Diego Julio Arenas-Aranda, Elena Hernández-Caballero and Fabio Salamanca-Gómez

1,881
21. Quantification of Elastin, Collagen and Advanced Glycation End Products as Functions of Age and Hypertension

By Milena Atanasova, Aneliya Dimitrova, Boryana Ruseva, Angelina Stoyanova, Miglena Georgieva and Emiliana Konova

5,036
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22. Calcium Regulation in Neuronal Function with Advancing Age: Limits of Homeostasis

By John N. Buchholz, William J. Pottorf, Conwin K. Vanterpool, Erik J. Behringer and Sue P. Duckles

2,092
23. All Your Eggs in One Basket: Mechanisms of Xenobiotic Induced Female Reproductive Senescence

By Alexander P. Sobinoff, Ilana R. Bernstein and Eileen A. McLaughlin

2,725
24. Parkinson’s Disease: Insights from the Laboratory and Clinical Therapeutics

By Jing-ye Zhou, Yong Yu, Xian-Lun Zhu, Chi-Ping Ng, Gang Lu and Wai-Sang Poon

1,644
26. The Functioning of “Aged” Heterochromatin

By Teimuraz A. Lezhava, Tinatin A. Jokhadze and Jamlet R. Monaselidze

2,160
27. New Targets for the Identification of an Anti-Inflammatory Anti-Senescence Activity

By Patrizia d’Alessio, Annelise Bennaceur-Griscelli, Rita Ostan and Claudio Franceschi

2,102
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28. Molecular Biomarkers of Aging

By Sergio Davinelli, Sonya Vasto, Calogero Caruso, Davide Zella and Giovanni Scapagnini

4,274
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29. Female Vascular Senescence

By Susana Novella, Ana Paula Dantas, Gloria Segarra, Carlos Hermenegildo and Pascual Medina

1,810
30. Pharmacologic Inhibition of Cardiac Stem Cell Senescence

By Daniela Cesselli, Angela Caragnano, Natascha Bergamin, Veronica Zanon, Nicoletta Finato, Ugolino Livi, Carlo Alberto Beltrami and Antonio Paolo Beltrami

2,279
31. Central Immune Senescence, Reversal Potentials

By Krisztian Kvell and Judit E. Pongracz

2,429
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32. Age-Related Changes in Human Skin by Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope

By Karine Cucumel, Jean Marie Botto, Nouha Domloge and Claude Dal Farra

3,952
33. Imagistic Noninvasive Assessment of Skin Ageing and Anti-Ageing Therapies

By Maria Crisan, Radu Badea, Carlo Cattani and Diana Crisan

3,250
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