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The study of the phenomenon of cellular aging is severely limited by the meager amount of basic information available, and nowhere is this more evident than in the area of the neural sciences. The present review is thus a very limited one, and some of the data considered have of necessity been more of developmental than aging significance. For broader information on aging, the reader is referred to the excellent review of Strehler(1) and to a recent symposium volume.(2)
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Herrmann, R.L. (1971). Aging. In: Metabolic Turnover in the Nervous System. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7169-8_2
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