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Aspects of cellular aging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Leonard Hayflick
Leonard Hayflick*
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University of California, San Francisco, Medical School, USA
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Leonard Hayflick, University of California, San Francisco, Medical School, 36991 Greencroft Close, PO Box 89, The Sea Ranch, California 95497, USA.
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Biological gerontology
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , August 1993 , pp. 207 - 222
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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