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Dietary Restriction as a Probe of Mechanisms of Senescence

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With the passage of time, changes of a deteriorative nature occur in most, if not all, living creatures, which are referred to as aging. The nature of the fundamental biological processes underlying aging is not known; moreover, this state of almost total ignorance has made it difficult to design studies that yield insights about aging processes.

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    Edward J. Masoro & Roger J. M. McCarter

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Masoro, E.J., McCarter, R.J.M. (1991). Dietary Restriction as a Probe of Mechanisms of Senescence. In: Cristofalo, V.J., Lawton, M.P. (eds) Special Focus on the Biology of Aging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-38445-9_11

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