Body composition and aging /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mobbs, Charles V., Hof, Patrick R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basel, Switzerland ; New York : Karger, 2010.
Series:Interdisciplinary topics in gerontology ; v. 37.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Contribution of adipose tissue to health span and longevity
  • Obesity paradox during aging
  • Central control of food intake in aging
  • Changes in food intake and its relationship to weight loss during advanced age
  • Changes in body composition in response to challenges during aging in rats
  • New haystacks reveal new needles : using Caenorhabditis elegans to identify novel targets for ameliorating body composition changes during human aging
  • Sarcopenia : prevalence, mechanisms, and functional consequences
  • mTOR signaling as a target of amino acid treatment of the age-related sarcopenia
  • Mitochondrial theory of aging in human age-related sarcopenia
  • Exercise as a calorie restriction mimetic : implications for improving healthy aging and longevity
  • Clinical, cellular and molecular phenotypes of aging bone