The Comparative Biology of Aging

By: Norman S. Wolf (Editor)

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Hardcover | 4 February 2010

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determined by an inability to move in response to touch. C. elegans develop through four larval stages following hatching and prior to adulthood. Adult C. elegans are reproductive for about the rst week of adulthood followed by approximately two weeks of post-reproductive adulthood prior to death. Life span is most commonly measured in the laboratory by maintaining the worms on the surface of a nutrie- agar medium (Nematode Growth Medium, NGM) with E. coli OP50 as the bacterial food source (REF). Alternative culture conditions have been described in liquid media; however, these are not widely used for longevity studies. Longevity of the commonly used wild type C. elegans hermaphrodite (N2) varies ? from 16 to 23 days under standard laboratory conditions (20 C, NGM agar, E. coli OP50 food source). Life span can be increased by maintaining animals at lower ambient temperatures and shortened by raising the ambient temperature. Use of a killed bacterial food source, rather than live E. coli, increases lifespan by 2-4 days, and growth of adult animals in the absence of bacteria (axenic growth or bac- rial deprivation) increases median life span to 32-38 days [3, 23, 24]. Under both standard laboratory conditions and bacterial deprivation conditions, wild-derived C. elegans hermaphrodites exhibit longevity comparable to N2 animals [25].

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Introduction: Lifespans and Pathologies Present at Death in Laboratory Animals	p. 1
Animal Size, Metabolic Rate, and Survival, Among and Within Species	p. 27
Hormonal Influences on Aging and Lifespan	p. 43
Exploring Mechanisms of Aging Retardation by Caloric Restriction: Studies in Model Organisms and Mammals	p. 69
Cell Replication Rates In Vivo and In Vitro and Wound Healing as Affected by Animal Age, Diet, and Species	p. 97
Sirtuin Function in Longevity	p. 123
The Role of TOR Signaling in Aging	p. 147
Mitochondria, Oxidative Damage and Longevity: What Can Comparative Biology Teach Us?	p. 163
Comparative Genomics of Aging	p. 191
Changes in Lysosomes and Their Autophagic Function in Aging: The Comparative Biology of Lysosomal Function	p. 201
Telomeres and Telomerase	p. 227
Cardiac Aging	p. 259
Comparative Skeletal Muscle Aging	p. 287
Aging of the Nervous System	p. 319
Aging of the Immune System Across Different Species	p. 353
Index	p. 377
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