Update on slow aging and negligible senescence--a mini-review.
This review updates developments of the concept of negligible senescence, proposed in Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome in 1990, with new information for turtles, rockfish, and the naked mole-rat. However, centenarians certainly do not show negligible senescence.
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Caleb E
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Department of Biological Sciences, Davis School of Gerontology and the USC College, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif 90089-0191, USA. cefinch@usc.edu
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D016922:Cellular Senescence; D005399:Fishes / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008322:Mammals; D019577:Mole Rats; D014426:Turtles / Q000502:physiology*