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

• Pubblicazione: Boston, : Little, Brown and Co., 1955
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 612.67
• Soggetto topico: Aging
• Altri autori: WolstenholmeG. E. W (Gordon Ethelbert Ward) CameronMargaret P EtheringtonJoan
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: General aspects
• ISBN: 9786613679291; 9781280768521; 1280768525; 9780470718926; 0470718927; 9780470716373; 0470716371
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911019751103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ciba Foundation colloquia on ageing ; ; v. 1.