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Review
. 2009;55(3):307-13.
doi: 10.1159/000215589. Epub 2009 May 13.

Update on slow aging and negligible senescence--a mini-review

Caleb E Finch  1
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Review

Update on slow aging and negligible senescence--a mini-review

Caleb E Finch. Gerontology. 2009.

Abstract

This review updates developments of the concept of negligible senescence, proposed in Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome in 1990, with new information for turtles, rockfish, and the naked mole-rat. However, centenarians certainly do not show negligible senescence.

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