Evolutionary Gerontology and Geriatrics

Why and How We Age

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvGiacinto Libertini,Graziamaria Corbi,Valeria Conti,Olga Shubernetskaya,Nicola Ferrara

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This book provides concrete scientific basis that we can conceive the possibility of modifying or even completely canceling aging process, despite the fact that aging is commonly regarded as the result of the overall effects of many uncontrollable degenerative phenomena.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-05-26
Mått155 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt811 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAdvances in Studies of Aging and Health
Antal sidor413
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
MedarbetareOlovnikov,Alexey
ISBN9783030737733

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Giacinto Libertini, MD, is Independent Researcher and Member of the Italian Society for Evolutionary Biology. He was the first to formulate some basic concepts of evolutionary medicine and to propose the theory of aging as an adaptive phenomenon favored by natural selection in terms of kin selection. He has also extended and deepened the concept of phenoptosis proposed by Vladimir Skulachev.Graziamaria Corbi, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy. She has contributed to over 120 publications covering internal medicine, geriatrics, cardiology, clinical pharmacology and public health.Valeria Conti, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Salerno, Italy. She is a brilliant young researcher with over sixty publications in the fields of clinical pharmacology, cardiology and geriatrics.Olga Shubernetskaya, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Shemyakin–Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia. She is a very promising and innovative scholar of telomere and telomerase biology.Nicola Ferrara, PhD, is Professor of the Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Federico II Univ. of Naples, Italy, Dean of the Specialization School in Gerontology and Geriatrics, and former President of the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics. He has contributed to about 350 works in many fields including mainly cardiology, geriatrics, and biogerontology.

Presentation.- Terminology.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Evolution and phenoptosis.- Chapter 3. Evolutionary medicine.- Chapter 4. The comparison between the two paradigms.- Chapter 5. Subtelomere-Telomere aging theory.- Chapter 6. Aging in the human species.- Chapter 7. The elderly subjects and their troubles.- Chapter 8. Prevention and treatment of the troubles of the elderly.- Appendix.