Aging, sarcopenia and the life-course
Sayer, Avan Aihie and Cooper, Cyrus (2006) Aging, sarcopenia and the life-course. Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, 16, (4), 265-274. (doi:10.1017/S0959259807002225).
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There is growing support for characterizing human aging from a life-course perspective, in terms of recognizing important influences operating from conception to death, and this approach provides a framework for understanding aging processes operating at the individual level. Kirkwood's disposable soma theory proposes that aging is a manifestation of imperfect somatic maintenance and repair processes. We can therefore predict that differing exposure to the determinants of somatic damage across the life-course, and variable capacity to respond in terms of repair are likely to underlie the wide variation in rates of aging between individuals
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0959-2598 (print) 1469-9036 (electronic) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine |
| Item ID: | 199457 |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Oct 2011 13:34 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Oct 2011 13:34 |
| Contributors: | Sayer, Avan Aihie (Author) Cooper, Cyrus (Author) |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/199457 |
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