[How mechanisms of senile involution could appear].
Destruction of vitally important organs in primitive Invertebrates ensures asexual reproduction and adaptation to the environment deterioration. In course of morphophysiological progress reversibility of destructive processes was lost and their meaning has changed. One of them began perhaps to cause death from old age.
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Institute of Biology of Inland Waters Russian Academy of Science, 152742, Borok Yaroslavl Region. makru@ibiw.yaroslavl.ru
D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008136:Longevity / Q000502:physiology