Prevention and Treatment of Age-Related Diseases

ISBN-13: 9781402048845 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 364 str.

Suresh Rattan; Moustapha Kassem

Opis

This book offers a broad-ranging assessment of current efforts of the molecular, cellular, hormonal, nutritional and lifestyle strategies being tested and applied by biogerontologists in the search for effective means of intervention, prevention and treatment of age-related diseases, and for achieving healthy old age. Employing a semi-academic style, the book presents data from experimental systems, while focusing primarily on their applications to humans in the prevention and treatment of age-related impairments.

Recenzje

This book is recommended by the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region Office (WHO-EMRO) as a basic resource for medical faculty libraries.

Spis treści

Preface S. Rattan and M. Kassem (editors) Biological causes of aging and age-related diseases. S. Rattan (Uni. Aarhus, Denmark). Immunity, inflammation and infections during aging. M. Capri et al. (Uni. Bologna, Italy) Progress and development in Parkinson’s therapy. C. Bjarkam and J. C. Sørensen (Uni. Aarhus, Denmark). Understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease. U. Kumar, A. Roland and S. Burbidge (Glaxo-Smith Kline, UK). Slowing down age-related muscle loss and sarcopenia. GP. Noirez and G. Butler-Brown (Uni. Paris, France) Pathophysiology, prevention and treatment of age-related osteoporosis in women. M. Kassem and K. Brixen (Odense Uni. Hospital, Denmark). Arthritis and its treatments. A. Syngle (Punjab Uni., Chandigarh, India). Recent developments in the treatment of diabetes-2. J. Nehlin (Odense Uni. Hospital, Denmark). Age-related cataract: management and prevention M.A. Nanavaty, A.R. Vasavada, and P.D. Gupta (Iladevi Cataract and IOL Research Center, Ahmedabad, India). Skin aging: pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment. M.S. Jung, K.M. Kelly and J. McCullough (Uni. Cal. Irvine, USA) Aging and periodontal disease. R. Suresh (S.R. Medical College, Chennai, India) Molecular diagnosis of breast cancer. L. L. Hansen (Uni. Aarhus, Denmark). Prostate disease in the aging male. A. Simoneau (Uni. Cal. Irvine, USA) Human premature aging diseases: molecular biology to clinical diagnosis. D.D. Gan, M. Hedayati, T. Stevnsner and V. Bohr (NIH, Baltimore,USA). Protein aggregation in aging and age-related diseases. J. Keller and Q. Ding (Uni. Kentucky, USA). Nutritional deficiency and its modulation in old age. C. Ferrari (Uni. Sao Paolo, Brazil). Dietary fats and age-related diseases. K. Bhattacharya and S. Rattan (Univ. Aarhus, Denmark)

Blurb

Biogerontologists are now in a position to construct general principles of aging, and genuine attempts are being made to test and develop effectives means of intervention, prevention and treatment of age-related diseases, and for achieving healthy old age. This book takes status of the molecular, cellular, hormonal, nutritional and lifestyle strategies being tested and applied. The book is comprised of inter-dependent chapters written in the form of critical reviews by world leading researchers and practitioners in their respective fields. The format of the articles is a semi-academic style in which research data from various experimental systems is presented while focusing on their applications in human beings with respect to the prevention and treatment of age-related impairments. The target readership is the undergraduate and graduate students in the universities, medical- and nursing-colleges, post-graduate students taking up research projects on different aspects of biogerontology, and practicing clinicians. This book could be an important volume for college, university and state libraries maintaining a good database in biology, medical and biomedical sciences. Furthermore, this book will also be of much interest to the pharmaceutical, and nutrition and healthcare industry for an easy access to accurate and reliable information in the field of aging research and intervention.