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life span

Known as: life spans 
National Institutes of Health

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2017
2017
Repeated intraspecific divergence in life span and aging of African annual fishes along an aridity gradient
Life span and aging are substantially modified by natural selection. Across species, higher extrinsic (environmentally related… Expand
2016
2016
Life span and structure of ephemeral root modules of different functional groups from a desert system.
The terminal branch orders of plant root systems have been proposed as short-lived 'ephemeral' modules specialized for resource… Expand
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Review
2016
Review
2016
The Japanese diet from 1975 delays senescence and prolongs life span in SAMP8 mice.
OBJECTIVE Life expectancy in Japan is high, suggesting that the Japanese diet, Nihon shoku (Japanese food), has significant… Expand
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Review
2015
Review
2015
Loneliness Across the Life Span
Most people have experienced loneliness and have been able to overcome it to reconnect with other people. In the current review… Expand
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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
Sustained Attention Across the Life Span in a Sample of 10,000
Normal and abnormal differences in sustained visual attention have long been of interest to scientists, educators, and clinicians… Expand
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Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Meditation improves self‐regulation over the life span
The use of meditation to improve emotion and attention regulation has a long history in Asia and there are many practitioners in… Expand
Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Specific dietary carbohydrates differentially influence the life span and fecundity of Drosophila melanogaster.
The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster is a broadly used model for gerontological research. Many studies are dedicated to… Expand
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Extension of chronological life span by reduced TOR signaling requires down-regulation of Sch9p and involves increased mitochondrial OXPHOS complex density
The nutrient-sensing target of rapamycin (TOR) pathway appears to have a conserved role in regulating life span. This signaling… Expand
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Effects of tocotrienols on life span and protein carbonylation in Caenorhabditis elegans.
  • H. Adachi, N. Ishii
  • The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological…
  • 2000
    • Corpus ID: 22446543
To assess the efficiency of tocotrienols against oxidative damage, we have demonstrated in a model-system nematode… Expand
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Discounting of delayed rewards across the life span: age differences in individual discounting functions
The present effort addressed both the issue of the generality of choice models and the issue of possible qualitative… Expand
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