Open AccessUpdate on Slow Aging and Negligible Senescence – A Mini-Review
Author(s) -
Caleb E. Finch
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
gerontology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.397
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1423-0003
pISSN - 0304-324X
DOI - 10.1159/000215589
Subject(s) - senescence , longevity , cellular aging , biology , rockfish , gerontology , healthy aging , cellular senescence , telomere , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , gene , fish <actinopterygii> , phenotype , fishery
This review updates developments of the concept of negligible senescence, proposed in Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome in 1990, with new information for turtles, rockfish, and the naked mole-rat. However, centenarians certainly do not show negligible senescence.
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