Contributions of Nonhuman Primates to Research on Aging.

ABSTRACT: Aging is the biological process of declining physiologic function associated with increasing mortality rate during advancing age. Humans and higher nonhuman primates exhibit unusually longer average life spans as compared with mammals of similar body mass. Furthermore, the population of humans worldwide is growing older as a result of improvements in public health, social services, and health care systems. Comparative studies among a wide range of organisms that include nonhuman primates contribute greatly to our understanding about the basic mechanisms of aging. Based on their genetic and physiologic relatedness to humans, nonhuman primates are especially important for better understanding processes of aging unique to primates, as well as for testing intervention strategies to improve hea

SUBMITTER: Didier ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5027759 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature