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Aging as a biological phenomenon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

D Sebastian Fairweather
D Sebastian Fairweather*
Affiliation:
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
*
D Sebastian Fairweather, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford OX2 6HE, UK.
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Biological gerontology
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , February 1991 , pp. 3 - 16
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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