The Lifespan of Animals, Volume 5
Colloquia on Ageing
Erschienen am 12. September 2009
872 Seiten
978-0-470-71494-2 (ISBN)
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The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.
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Inhalt
- CIBA FOUNDATION COLLOQUIA ON AGEING
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- Chairman's opening remarks
- Actuarial aspects of human lifespans
- Discussion
- Parental age effects on man
- Discussion
- Studies on the longevity and mortality of Englishthorough-bred horses
- Discussion
- Lifespan of cattle and horses under various climatic con-ditions and the reasons for premature culling
- Discussion
- Onset of disease and the longevity of rat and man
- Discussion
- Lifespans of mammalian and bird populations in nature
- Discussion
- Arteriosclerosis in birds
- Discussion
- Relation of lifespan to brain weight and body weight in mammals
- Discussion
- A review of the lifespans and mortality rates of fish in nature and their relation to growth and other physiological charac-teristics
- Discussion
- Physiological changes accompanying ageing in fishes
- Discussion
- Longevity of fishes in captivity with special reference to those kept in the New York Aquarium
- Discussion
- Factors influencing the lifespan of bees
- Discussion
- The biology of ageing in insects
- Discussion
- The rate of ageing in Drosophila subobscra
- Discussion
- Group Discussion
- Chairman's closing remarks
- Appendix
