**SENESCENCE**

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Edited by **Tetsuji Nagata**

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/1905 Edited by Tetsuji Nagata

#### **Contributors**

John N. Buchholz, Conwin Vanterpool, William Pottorf, Erik J. Behringer, Sue Duckles, David Delmail, Pascal Labrousse, Thiago Monaco, Paulo Silveira, Daniel Silvestre, Keith Wheaton, Carmelo Bernabeu, Francisco Javier Blanco, Miloud Hafsi, Ali Guendouz, Judit Pongracz, Krisztian Kvell, Giovanni Scapagnini, Calogero Caruso, Sergio Davinelli, Davide Zella, Vasto, Diego Julio Arenas-Aranda, Elena Hernández-Caballero, Fabio Salamanca-Gómez, Eileen Anne McLaughlin, Alexander Peter Sobinoff, Ilana Bernstein, Norio Wake, Takafumi Inoue, Kayoko Maehara, Gang Lu, Jing-Ye Zhou, Yong Yu, Xian-Lun Zhu, Chi-Ping Ng, Wai-Sang Poon, Nouha Domloge, Karine Cucumel, Jean Marie Botto, Claude Dal Farra, Milena Atanasova, Anelia Aleksandrova Dimitrova, Boryana Krumova Ruseva, Angelina Stoyanova, Miglena Georgieva, Emiliana Konova, Maria Crisan, Diana Crisan, Jaba Tkemaladze, Alexandre Tavartkiladze, Konstantin Chichinadze, Pascual Medina, Susana Novella, Carlos Hermenegildo, Gloria Segarra, Ana Paula Dantas, Eloísa Agüera, Purificación De La Haba, Purificación Cabello, Estefanía Molina, Lourdes De La Mata, Antonio Paolo Beltrami, Daniela Cesselli, Angela Caragnano, Natascha Bergamin, Veronica Zanon, Nicoletta Finato, Carlo Alberto Beltrami, Hulya Yucel, Anna Freixas, Barbara Luque, Amalia Reina, Jean-François Rontani, Brun Ulfhake, Mikael Altun, Max Gronholdt-Klein, Lingzhan Wang, Patrizia d'Alessio, Pierre Frendo, Laurence Dupont, Geneviève Alloing, Sarra El Msehli, Olivier Pierre, Julie Hopkins, Didier Hérouart, Ulrike Zentgraf, Ross Hannan, Jorge Rabinovich, Paula Medone, Frédéric Menu, Soledad Ceccarelli, Delmi Margarita Canale, Eliana Nieves, Raúl L. Stariolo, Kieron Edwards, Juan Pablo Sanchez-Tamburrino, Matt Humphry, Paula Fernandez, Sebastian Moschen, Norma Paniego, Ruth Heinz, Tetsuji Nagata, Teimuraz Lezhava, Jamlet Monaselidze, Tinatin Jokhadze

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Senescence Edited by Tetsuji Nagata p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0144-4 eBook (PDF) ISBN 978-953-51-4340-6
