[The significance of experimental gerontology for clinical geriatrics (author's transl)].
Aging is a physiological process. The experimental gerontology is substantially a purely theoretical science. In the future, however, it will attain increasingly more significance for many fields of medicine. After presenting a survey covering the most important theories of aging it is shortly entered into the efforts to establish a mathematical model of multicellular aging (Beier, Brehme and Wiegel 1973). Furthermore an introduction is given into a longitudinal program (3 years) of the own experimental-gerontological research using about 1000 Sprague-Dawley rats and age parameters. The mathematical evaluation of the results shall contribute to come to more exact and objective statements  about age and vitality. The significance of the theoretical-experimental gerontology lies mainly in its efforts to study the fundamental conditions and the possibilities for a longer maintenance of vitality by systematic measures and to reduce or retard the susceptibility to the socalled age-diseases.
D000375:Aging; D000818:Animals; D046508:Culture Techniques; D004032:Diet; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005347:Fibroblasts; D005853:Geriatrics; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007109:Immunity; D007668:Kidney / Q000502:physiology; D009043:Motor Activity; D009206:Myocardium / Q000032:analysis; D009424:Nervous System Physiological Phenomena; D009431:Neural Conduction; D005082:Physical Exertion; D010860:Pigments, Biological / Q000032:analysis; D051381:Rats; D013997:Time Factors
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Bedeutung der experimentellen Gerontologie für die klinische Geriatrie