Includes bibliographical references and index.

The demography of aging / David E. Bloom and Sinead Shannon -- The "OMICS" of aging : insights from genomes upon stress / Ismene Karakasilioti, Anna Ioannidou, and George A. Garinis -- Protein quality control coming of age / Silke Meiners -- Telomerase function in aging / Rodrigo T. Calado -- The cellular senescence progtam / Pooja Shivshankar and Claude Jourdan Lesaux -- Signaling networks controlling cellular senescence / Leena P. Desar, Yan Y. Sanders, and Victor J. Thannickal -- Immune senescence / Kevin P. High -- Developmental and physiological aging of the lung / Kent E. Pinkerton, Lei Wang, Suzette M. Smiley-Jewell, Jingyi Xu, and Francis H. Y. Green -- Mouse models to explore the aging lung / Mingyi Wang and Deepak A. Deshpande -- Evidence for premature lung aging of the injured neonatal lung as exemplified by bronchopulmonary dysplasia / Anne Hilgenderff -- Remodeling of the extracellular matrix in the aging lung / Jesse Roman -- Aging Mesenchymal Stem Cells in lung disease / Maria G. Kapetanaki, Ana L. Mora, and Mauricio Rojas -- COPD as a disease of premature aging / Laurent Boyer, Jorge Boczkowski, and Serge Adnot -- Lung infections and aging / Jacqueline M. Kehler and Keith C. Meyer.

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