IV. BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCES 



At present, the problems of age-associated physiology, biochemistry, and 

 morphology are being studied on a very large scale. We need only mention 

 the fact that the bibliographic list published in the Journal of Gerontology 

 (USA) last year contained 13,000 source references. In many countries, special 

 journals are published that are devoted to the problems of aging, longevity, and 

 ontophysiology (understood as the total study of the age-associated development 

 of organisms) . Among these, we should mention such journals as the following 

 (the data in parentheses include the country and city where the journal is 

 published and the year its publication started) : 



(a) Journal of Gerontology (USA, St. Louis, 1946) 



(b) Geriatrics (USA, Minneapolis, 1946) 



(c) Journal of American Geriatrics (USA, Baltimore, 1953) 



(d) Bulletin of the Insdtute of Gerontology (USA, Iowa, 1954) 



(e) Zeitschrift fur Alterforschung (GDR, Dresden, 1938) 



(e) Longevita (Italy, Milan, 1952) 



(f) Revista di Gerontologia e Geriatria (Italy, Rome, 1956) 



(g) Acta Gerontologica (Italy, Milan, 1951) 



(h) Giornale di Gerontologia (Italy, Florence, 1953) 



(i) Revue Francais de Gerintologie (France, Paris, 1956) 



There has been a widespread establishment of a variety of special societies 

 and the convocation of annual international conferences and meetings on 

 problems of age-associated physiology. 



Unfortunately, bibliographic reviews of Russian ontophysiology and 

 biochemistry are very rare and by no means reflect, to a sufficient extent, the 

 great contributions of Russian scientists in this new and important branch of 

 science. The review of work in this field written by A. V. Nagorniy (1938) is a 

 very valuable one, but naturally it does not include the more recent studies. 

 In 1951, there appeared a review of the literature entitled "Russian literature 

 on age-associated changes in the metabolism and reactivity of the organism," 

 by O. S. Shur'yan, I. V. Piskarskaya, and T. N. Stolyarova, in the proceedings 

 of a conference at the Academy of Sciences, UkrSSR, devoted to these problems. 

 Although this review covers only a part of the problems of age-associated phys- 

 iology and pathology and even in these areas includes only some of the related 

 material, it is of some scientific interest. 



The present bibliography of Russian studies on ontophysiology is an at- 

 tempt to fill the existing gap to some extent. Naturally, it has its flaws and has 

 by no means succeeded in including all the older and newer studies. The author 



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