SUBJECT INDEX 



Adaption, changes with age, 60-71 

 Adaptive enzymes, turnover, 48 

 Ageing, definition, 1, 6, 60, 73, 93, 



99, 131-132, 144, 191 

 Alzheimer's disease, 134, 135, 136, 



143-144, 146, 147 

 Ammotragus, survival curves, 12-13, 



14, 15 

 Amoeba proteus, growth and division, 



41-42 

 Amphibia, lifespan, 9 



and latitude, 26 

 Amyloidosis, in female baboon, 126 



in humans, 125 



in mice, 121-122, 125-126 

 Arterial change, role of elastase, 93, 



97-99, 101-103 

 Arteriosclerosis, 23, 31, 32-33, 



74-77, 81-84, 101-102, 134, 136, 



137, 191 

 Atherosclerosis, 23, 76-77, 101, 



136, 191 



Bats, ageing patterns, 27-28 

 Birds, ageing patterns, 9, 20, 21, 37 

 Blood pressure, human, and cardiac 

 output, 85, 87 



and malnutrition, 34 



changes in, 6, 65 



curves, 32, 33 

 Boselaphus, survival curves, 12-13 

 Bullfrog (see liana catesbeiana) 

 Butterflies, ageing patterns, 25 



Cards , survival curves, 12-13, 14 

 Capra, survival curves, 13, 35-36 

 Carbon dioxide production and 



cardiac output, 88 

 Carcinogenesis, role of cross-linking 



in, 68 

 Carcinoma, and repair of injury, 104, 

 113 

 incidence in Africans 104, 106, 113 

 in inbred strains of animals 117, 

 118-119, 120, 121 

 induced by methylcholanthrene,106 

 Cardiac disease in Africans, 104, 

 111-112, 113 



Cardiac output, changes in, 84-90, 



191-192 

 Caterpillars (see Lymaniria dispar) 

 Cavy (see Dolichotis) 

 Cell replacement, 4, 5, 6, 8 

 Cells, ageing of, 39-50 



accumulation of pigments in, 44 



non-dividing, lifespan, 5 

 Chaffinch, lifespan in captivity, 9 

 Cholesterol metabolism, and ageing, 

 133 



role of fatty acids, 193-194 

 Circulation, and ageing, 77, 84-90 

 Cladocerans, ageing patterns, 24, 25 

 Clinicopathological tests of ageing, 



92-100 

 Clupea pilchardus, ageing patterns 



and latitude, 26 

 Cobalt deficiency, 188-189 

 Collagen, adaptability of, 65-66 



and elastic fibres, 103 



changes in, 65-66, 68, 96-97 

 and wound healing, 70-71 



changing reactions to enzymes, 97, 

 98 



extensile properties, 98-99 



iron uptake by, in siderosis, 110 



molecular turnover in, 48 



structure, 70 

 Collagenase, changing reactivity of 



collagen to, 97 

 Comparative age studies, 1-38 

 biological approach, 1-19 

 clinicopathological tests, 92- 



100 

 physiological approach, 20-30 

 Coronella laevis (see snakes) 

 Cross-linking, 66, 68, 69 

 Cross -sectional studies, 158-159, 



171-172, 173, 174, 179, 186 



Daphnia magna, ageing patterns, 24 

 Deer (see Muntiacus) 

 Deoxypentose nucleic acid, 47, 48, 



49 

 Diagnosis, art and limitations, 79 

 Dingoes, survival curves, 12-13 

 Dolichotis, survival curves, 12-13 



199 



