Descripción: Karger «Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontology offers investigators a way to stay at the forefront of developments. This series represents a comprehensive and integrated approach to the problems of aging and presents pertinent data from studies in animal and human gerontology. In order to provide a forum for a unified concept of gerontology, both the biological foundations and the clinical and sociological consequences of aging in humans are presented. Individual volumes are characterized by a synthetic view of the aging process, novel ideas, and original approaches to healthy aging as well as age-related functional decline.» ISSN 0074-1132