Aging and Biological Rhythms

✍ Scribed by Harvey V. Samis Jr. (auth.), Harvey V. Samis Jr., Salvatore Capobianco (eds.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1978
Tongue: English
Leaves: 344
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology 108
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Aging is one of the most serious and costly health problems in the Western world. A disproportionate amount of the available health care capability is devoted to the health care of the aged and the cost of this care is soaring. Viewed in wide perspective, aging presents two problems for the researcher's consideration. First is that of providing the most efficacious therapeutic regi mens and the best possible care for those already in their latter years. The second is to determine the cause or causes for senes cence and all its attendant problems in order to decrease the im pact of senescence on general health and well being. This volume is aimed at examining possible relationships be tween biological time structure and aging and ways by which these interrelationships might be examined in terms of both the causes of senescence and the management of health problems of the elderly. The purpose of the volume is to stir the interests of chronobiolo gists in gerontology and those of gerontologists and geriatricians in chronobiology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Chronobiologic Optimization of Aging....Pages 5-56
Significance of the Chronobiological Approach in Carrying Out Aging Studies....Pages 57-96
Phase Shifting and Life Span in the Codling Moth, Laspeyresia Pomonella (L)....Pages 97-99
Aging in the Circadian Time Structure of Blood Cell Titers in the Rat....Pages 101-103
Age Changes in Rhythms of Energy Metabolism, Activity, and Body Temperature in Mus and Peromyscus ....Pages 105-124
Clocked Cell Cycle Clocks: Implications Toward Chronopharmacology and Aging....Pages 125-184
Circadian Dyschronism and Chronotypic Ecophilia as Factors in Aging and Longevity....Pages 185-213
Interrelations Between Biological Rhythms and Clocks....Pages 215-234
Biologic Rhythms and Sympathetic Neural Control of Pineal Metabolism....Pages 235-249
Circadian Organization and Female Reproductive Cyclicity....Pages 251-274
Circadian Rhythms in the Central Cholinergic System in Aging Animals....Pages 275-299
Age Related Circadian Responsiveness of MAO Inhibitors....Pages 301-308
Sleep, Biological Rhythms and Aging....Pages 309-323
Concluding Comments....Pages 325-327
Epilogue....Pages 329-332
Back Matter....Pages 333-342

✦ Subjects

Geriatrics/Gerontology

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