PART 5: Aging
71 The Biology of Aging
 | Figure 71-1 Photographs of an old (age 27.6 years) calorically restricted (CR) Rhesus monkey (A, B) compared to an age-matched control (C, D). The mean lifespans of control animals in captivity is 27 years and the maximum lifespan is about 40 years. CR (30% of ad libitum fed controls) was... |
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 | Figure 71-2 Life-span distributions for individual Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes in isogenic populations of wild-type (green bars) and age-1 (red bars) strains. (Reproduced from TB Kirkwood et al: Mech Ageing Dev 126:439, 2005; with permission.) |
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