Aging interventions and therapies (World Scientific, 2005)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover -- TOC$Contents -- Introduction -- CH$1. The Ethics of Aging Intervention and Life-Extension -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PROBLEM OF VALUE: LIFE-EXTENSION AND DEATH POSTPONING -- O Death, Where is Thy Sting? -- The Value of Living: Life-Extension and the Relative Badness of Death -- ARGUMENTS AGAINST BIOGERONTOLOGICAL INTERVENTION -- Natural Aging and Human Intervention -- Overpopulation and Sociobiological Reproductive Pressures -- Mythic Immortality vs. Life-Extension: Problems of Finitude, Striving, Boredom and Personal Identity -- The Problem of Incumbency and the Social Value of Life-Extension -- Problems of Unity: Distributive Justice, Parallel Populations, Parallel Species -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CH$2. Prevention and Treatment of Skin Aging -- INTRODUCTION -- PREVENTION OF SKIN AGING -- Sunscreen -- Hormone Therapy -- TREATMENT OF SKIN AGING -- Topical Pharmaceuticals -- Surgical Interventions -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES --
- CH$3. Industrial Approaches Towards Developing Effective Skin Care Products -- INTRODUCTION -- PROMINENT AGING THEORIES -- PHYSIOLOGICAL TARGETS IN ANTI-AGE PROPHYLAXIS AND TREATMENT -- ACTIVE COSMETIC INGREDIENTS AND THEIR POTENTIAL -- Moisturizers -- UV-FILTERS -- ANTIOXIDANTS -- Exfoliation -- Vitamin A and its Derivatives -- Coenzyme Q10 and Creatine -- Anti-inflammatory Actives -- FUTURE PERSPECTIVES -- REFERENCES -- CH$4. Strategies to Reduce Age-Related Skeletal Muscle Wasting -- INTRODUCTION -- UNDERLYING MECHANISMS OF AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN SKELETAL MUSCLE -- EXERCISE AND AGING -- Use it or Lose it? Exercise Alone Will Not Prevent Sarcopenia -- Innervation and Neurotrophic Factors -- Systemic Changes in Circulating Hormones and Other Factors -- Growth Hormone/IGF-I -- Treating Sarcopenia is not Simply 8220;Hormone Replacement Therapy8221; -- 2-Adrenoceptor Agonists -- Risks and Benefits of Muscle Anabolic Therapies for Sarcopenia -- Myostatin -- Vitamin D --
- Inflammatory Cytokines -- Metabolism, Energy Balance and Nutrition -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CH$5. Antioxidants and Aging in Human Beings -- INTRODUCTION -- FREE RADICAL THEORY OF AGING AND THE USE OF ANTIOXIDANTS -- EFFECTS OF ANTIOXIDANTS ON AGING AND MORTALITY -- Circulating Antioxidants and Resistance to Free Radicals in Very Old People -- Antioxidants and Mortality -- Diet and Mortality -- Antioxidants and Aging -- Diet and Aging -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CH$6. Hormone Therapy for Aging -- GROWTH HORMONE -- INSULIN -- MELATONIN -- DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE (DHEA) -- ANDROGENS -- ESTROGENS -- HARMFUL EFFECTS OF HORMONAL THERAPY -- SUMMARY AND PROSPECTIVES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CH$7. Pineal Peptides as Modulators of Aging -- INTRODUCTION -- PINEAL POLYPEPTIDE PREPARATION EPITHALAMIN -- EPITALON (ALAGLUASPGLY) -- EFFECTS OF PINEAL PEPTIDES ON AGING IN HUMANS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES --
- CH$8. Melatonin: Anti-Aging Perception and Current Perspectives -- INTRODUCTION -- MELATONIN AND CIRCADIAN RHYTHM -- MELATONIN AND AGING -- ANTIOXIDATIVE NATURE OF MELATONIN -- MELATONIN AGAINST RADIATION DAMAGE -- DOSE DISCREPANCY -- MELATONIN AS AN ANTI-CARCINOGEN -- MELATONIN AGAINST DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS -- MEL