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Index
Cover
Half-Title
Series
Dedication
Epigraph
Title
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: What is ageing?
Chapter 2: Wear and tear?
Chapter 3: Telomeres – measuring the lifetime of cells
Chapter 4: Cell senescence – down but not out
Chapter 5: Old before their time
Chapter 6: Ming the Mollusc and other models
Chapter 7: It’s in the genes
Chapter 8: Eat less, live longer?
Chapter 9: The immune system – first responders
Chapter 10: The immune system – the specialists take over
Chapter 11: The bugs fight back
Chapter 12: HIV/AIDS – adding insult to injury
Chapter 13: Epigenetics and chronology – the two faces of time
Chapter 14: Stem cells – back to fundamentals
Chapter 15: Something in the blood?
Chapter 16: The broken brain
Chapter 17: Alzheimer’s disease – the family that led the way
Chapter 18: Alzheimer’s disease – a challenge to amyloid
Chapter 19: It’s the environment, stupid
Chapter 20: Treat the person, not the disease
Chapter 21: Ageing research – from the lab into our lives
Notes on sources
Acknowledgements
Index
Copyright
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