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Aging interventions and therapies /
This comprehensive volume surveys the molecular, cellular, hormonal, nutritional, medical, and lifestyle strategies being tested and applied for the prevention, intervention, and treatment of age-related diseases. With authoritative contributions not just from researchers in academic institutions an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ :
World Scientific,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Ethics of Aging Intervention and Life-Extension
- INTRODUCTION
- THE PROBLEM OF VALUE: LIFE-EXTENSION AND DEATH POSTPONING
- O Death, Where is Thy Sting?
- The Value of Living: Life-Extension and the Relative Badness of Death
- ARGUMENTS AGAINST BIOGERONTOLOGICAL INTERVENTION
- Natural Aging and Human Intervention
- Overpopulation and Sociobiological Reproductive Pressures
- Mythic Immortality vs. Life-Extension: Problems of Finitude, Striving, Boredom and Personal Identity
- The Problem of Incumbency and the Social Value of Life-Extension
- Problems of Unity: Distributive Justice, Parallel Populations, Parallel Species
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- 2. Prevention and Treatment of Skin Aging
- INTRODUCTION
- PREVENTION OF SKIN AGING
- Sunscreen
- Hormone Therapy
- TREATMENT OF SKIN AGING
- Topical Pharmaceuticals
- Surgical Interventions
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- 3. Industrial Approaches Towards Developing Effective Skin Care Products
- INTRODUCTION
- PROMINENT AGING THEORIES
- PHYSIOLOGICAL TARGETS IN ANTI-AGE PROPHYLAXIS AND TREATMENT
- ACTIVE COSMETIC INGREDIENTS AND THEIR POTENTIAL
- Moisturizers
- UV-FILTERS
- ANTIOXIDANTS
- Exfoliation
- Vitamin A and its Derivatives
- Coenzyme Q10 and Creatine
- Anti-inflammatory Actives
- FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
- REFERENCES
- 4. Strategies to Reduce Age-Related Skeletal Muscle Wasting
- INTRODUCTION
- UNDERLYING MECHANISMS OF AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN SKELETAL MUSCLE
- EXERCISE AND AGING
- Use it or Lose it? Exercise Alone Will Not Prevent Sarcopenia
- Innervation and Neurotrophic Factors
- Systemic Changes in Circulating Hormones and Other Factors
- Growth Hormone/IGF-I
- Treating Sarcopenia is not Simply 8220;Hormone Replacement Therapy8221;
- 2-Adrenoceptor Agonists
- Risks and Benefits of Muscle Anabolic Therapies for Sarcopenia
- Myostatin
- Vitamin D
- Inflammatory Cytokines
- Metabolism, Energy Balance and Nutrition
- CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- REFERENCES
- 5. Antioxidants and Aging in Human Beings
- INTRODUCTION
- FREE RADICAL THEORY OF AGING AND THE USE OF ANTIOXIDANTS
- EFFECTS OF ANTIOXIDANTS ON AGING AND MORTALITY
- Circulating Antioxidants and Resistance to Free Radicals in Very Old People
- Antioxidants and Mortality
- Diet and Mortality
- Antioxidants and Aging
- Diet and Aging
- CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES
- 6. Hormone Therapy for Aging
- GROWTH HORMONE
- INSULIN
- MELATONIN
- DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE (DHEA)
- ANDROGENS
- ESTROGENS
- HARMFUL EFFECTS OF HORMONAL THERAPY
- SUMMARY AND PROSPECTIVES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- REFERENCES
- 7. Pineal Peptides as Modulators of Aging
- INTRODUCTION
- PINEAL POLYPEPTIDE PREPARATION EPITHALAMIN
- EPITALON (ALAGLUASPGLY)
- EFFECTS OF PINEAL PEPTIDES ON AGING IN HUMANS
- CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES
- 8. Melatonin: Anti-Aging Perception and Current Perspectives
- INTRODUCTION
- MELATONIN AND CIRCADIAN RHYTHM
- MELATONIN AND AGING
- ANTIOXIDATIVE NATURE OF MELATONIN
- MELATONIN AGAINST RADIATION DAMAGE
- DOSE DISCREPANCY
- MELATONIN AS AN ANTI-CARCINOGEN
- MELATONIN AGAINST DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS
- MEL.