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Record Nr.

UNINA9911019751103321

Titolo

General aspects / / editors for the Ciba Foundation, G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Margaret P. Cameron ; assisted by Joan Etherington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Little, Brown and Co., 1955

ISBN

9786613679291

9781280768521

1280768525

9780470718926

0470718927

9780470716373

0470716371

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation colloquia on ageing ; ; v. 1

Altri autori (Persone)

WolstenholmeG. E. W (Gordon Ethelbert Ward)

CameronMargaret P

EtheringtonJoan

Disciplina

612.67

Soggetti

Aging

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Proceedings of the Colloquium on Ageing: General Aspects, held at the Ciba Foundation, July 13-15, 1954.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CIBA FOUNDATION COLLOQUIA ON AGEING VOLUME I; CONTENTS; Chairman's opening remarks; The definition and measurement of senescence; Some remarks on the pathological basis of ageing; Discussion; Mental aspects of ageing; Discussion; General Discussion; Effects of ageing on respiratory function in man; Discussion; Changes with age in diffusion coefficients of solutes for human tissue membranes; Discussion; The changing incidence of certain vascular lesions of the skin with ageing; Ageing of elastic tissue and the systemic effects of elastase; Discussion

Calcium metabolism in old age as related to ageing of the skeletonDiscussion; 17-Ketosteroid excretion in ageing subjects; Discussion; Tissue transplantation technique applied to the problem of the ageing of the organs of reproduction; Preservation of tissue in vitro for the study of ageing; Discussion; Research areas in gerontology



nutrition that are now neglected; A fantasy of ageing and the bearing of nutrition upon it; Too rapid maturation in children as a cause of ageing; Discussion; Psychological aspects of ageing; Discussion; Adrenocortical reactivity in aged schizophrenic patients

DiscussionGeneral Discussion

Sommario/riassunto

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.