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  IN SEARCH OF
THE SECRETS OF AGING

 

The following titles include the Selected Readings listed at the end of each section as well as a selection of articles and books that cover the field of aging and longevity research in general.


Adler, W., Song, L, Chopra, R.K., Winchurch, R.A., Waggie, K.S., Nagel, J.E., "The Immune Deficiency of Aging," in Powers, D., Morley, J., Coe, R., eds., Aging, Immunity, and Infection, New York: Springer, 1993.

Ames, B.N., "Endogenous DNA Damage as Related to Nutrition and Aging," in Ingram, D.K., Baker, G.T., Shock, N.W., eds., The Potential for Nutritional Modulation of Aging Processes, Trumbull, CT: Food and Nutrition Press, 1991.

Blake, M.J., Udelsman, R., Feulner, G.J., Norton, D.D., Holbrook, N.J., "Stress-Induced HSP70 Expression in Adrenal Cortex: A Glucocorticoid Sensitive, Age-Dependent Response," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 87:846-850, 1991.

Cerami, A., "Hypothesis: Glucose as a Mediator of Aging," Journal of the American Geriatric Society 33:626-634, 1985.

Daynes, R.A., and Araneo, B.A., "Prevention and Reversal of Some Age-Associated Changes in Immunologic Responses by Supplemental Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate Therapy," Aging: Immunology and Infectious Disease 3:135-157, 1992.

Fiatarone, M.A., Marks, E.C., et al., "High-Intensity Strength Training in Nonagenarians," Journals of the American Medical Association 263:3029-3034, 1990.

Finch, C.E., Longevity, Senescence and the Genome, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Finch, C.E., and Johnson, T.E., eds., Molecular Biology of Aging, UCLA Symposium on Molecular and Cellular Biology, Vol. 23, New York: Liss, 1990.

Goldstein, S., "Replicative Senescence: The Human Fibroblast Comes of Age," Science 240:1129-1133, 1990.

Harley, C.B., Futcher, A.B., Greider, C.W., "Telomeres Shorten During Aging of Human Fibroblasts," Nature 345:458-460, 1990.

Harman, D., "The Free Radical Theory of Aging," in Warner, H.R., et al., eds., Modern Biological Theories of Aging, New York: Raven, 1987.

Hayflick, L., and Moorhead, P.S., "The Serial Cultivation of Human Diploid Cell Strains," Experimental Cell Research 25:585-621, 1961.

Jazwinski, S.M., "Genes of Youth: Genetics of Aging in Baker's Yeast," ASM News 59:172-178, 1993.

Johnson, T.E., "Aging Can Be Genetically Dissected into Component Processes Using Long-Lived Lines of Caenorhabditis elegans," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 84:3777-3781, 1987.

Martin, G.R., and Baker, G.T., "Aging and the Aged: Theories of Aging and Life Extension," Encyclopedia of Bioethics, New York: MacMillan, 1993.

Martin, G.R., Danner, D.B., and Holbrook, N.J., "Aging -- Causes and Defenses," Annual Review of Medicine 44, 1993.

McCormick, A.M., and Campisi, J., "Cellular Aging and Senescence," Current Opinion in Cell Biology 3:230-234, 1991.

National Institute on Aging. Research on Older Women: Highlights from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health, 1991.

Pereira-Smith, O.M., and Smith, J.R., "Genetic Analysis of Indefinite Division in Human Cells: Identification of Four Complementation Groups," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 85:6042-6046, 1988.

Rose, M.R., "Laboratory Evolution of Postponed Senescence in Drosophila melanogaster," Evolution 38:1004-1010, 1984.

Rudman, D., Feller, A.G., Nagraj, H.S., et al., "Effects of Human Growth Hormone in Men Over 60 Years Old," The New England Journal of Medicine 323:1-6, 1990.

Shock, N.W., Greulick, R.G., Andres, R.A., Arenberg, D., Costa, P.T., Lakatta, E.G., Tobin, J.P., Normal Human Aging: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984.

Schneider, E.L., Reed, J.D., "Life Extension," New England Journal of Medicine 313:1159-1168, 1985.

Schneider, E.L., and Rowe, J.W., eds., Handbook of the Biology of Aging, 3rd. ed., San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1990.

Stadtman, E.R., "Protein Oxidation and Aging," Science 257:1220-1224, 1992.

Wallace, D.C., "Mitochondrial Genetics: A Paradigm for Aging and Degenerative Diseases?" Science 256:628-632, 1992.

Warner, H., Butler, R.N., Sprott, R.L., Schneider, E.L.,eds., Modern Biological Theories of Aging, New York: Raven, 1987.

Warner, H.R., and Kim, S.K., "Dietary Factors Modulating the Rate of Aging," in Goldberg, I., ed., Functional Foods, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993.

Weindruch, R., and Walford, R.L., The Retardation of Aging and Disease by Dietary Restriction, Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1988.

For Lay Audiences


Gorner, P., and Kotulak, R., Aging on Hold, Orlando, FL: Tribune Publishing, 1992.

Institute of Medicine, Extending Life, Enhancing Life: A National Research Agenda on Aging, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1992.

National Institute on Aging, Special Report on Aging 1992 and Special Report on Aging 1991, Bethesda, MD: The Institute, 1991, 1992.

Pines, M., Inside the Cell, Bethesda, MD: National Institute of General Medical Sciences, 1979 (rev. 1989 by A. Oplinger).

Schindler, L.W., The Immune System - How It Works, Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 1991.

Walford, R., Maximum Life Span, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.

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