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Introduction to Aging and the Aging Process!

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Aging has a variety of meanings among laypersons, including retirement, the ability to travel, the experience of leisure, the onset of physical limitations, racial trends, and so on. Within the scientific community, there are also considerable differences about its definition and scope.

The legitimacy of the scientific study of aging can be traced to the 1960s when the older adult population was classified as a distinct population and awarded a variety of privileges, protections, and rights. However, diverse health, social, and biological studies that cover a wide array of species and originate from various scientific disciplines cast considerable ambiguity on the subject.

Some of the most frequently debated questions are: “What is aging?”, “When should an organism be defined as aging?”, “What is the role of time in aging?”, “Is aging a programmed process in a species?”, “Is aging identical to deterioration, disease, and death?”, “Are there multiple pathways or programs leading to the same phenotype?”, “What are the causes of aging?”, “What are the general characteristics that define the individual?”

Biological Basis of Human Aging

Human aging, including its natural course, processes, and underlying mechanisms, continues to be one of the greatest mysteries. Since the aging process is the main risk factor for many chronic diseases, most notably cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, research in the area of aging is highly significant.

Understanding the interconnected biology of aging, identifying interventions that delay aging, and translating laboratory findings into improved health are of great importance in the context of modern societies where the median age is rapidly increasing. Despite the empirical evidence for the biological basis of aging, its study continues to be viewed as studying a passive process, unwittingly treated as either fatalistic or highly metaphysical.

However, scientific advances suggest that an understanding of aging at the cellular and molecular levels is possible, challenging such preconceptions.

Beyond mammalian aging models, significant data and fundamental insights into the aging process have been acquired using the model organism s. Yeasts share many fundamental cellular pathways with humans and each other. In addition, yeast aging is a specialized type of aging, and examination of the aging process has certain advantages.

With the application of yeast aging models, approaches including collections of yeast-gene deletion strains, protein expression engineering, high-throughput phenotyping assays, and the construction of genetic interaction maps have been possible, expanding human biology significantly.

This chapter provides an overview of the current knowledge on the biological basis of human aging, emphasizing both distinct and shared aspects of human and yeast aging with respect to aging-related processes, including stem cell aging and diseases primarily associated with aging.

Definition and Significance

No other gerontological issues in recent years have attracted greater interest than the biological basis of human aging. The need for an understanding of the aging process, or that complex of biological events which over time increases the risk of the individual for a fatal outcome, is self-evident. The profound impact of secular increases in life expectancy in redistributing populations of industrialized countries toward older age groups and in generating the “graying” of society is seen as largely a reflection of broad-based socioeconomic advances in the understanding, treatment, and prevention of nonspecific diseases and impairment.

It is this knowledge that, building upon previous experiences with increased life expectancy, has also cultivated growing interest in geriatrics, or that clinical and preventive care approach facilitated by knowledge of the interface between universal nonspecific aging processes and threats or injury.

Its uniqueness is reflected in several lines of evidence. First, the age-dependent increase in disease and impairment does not appear to be a fortuitous coincidental process, but rather the result of biologic underpinnings.

Second, the imposition of various common aging signs, examples of which are senescence, the progressive loss of homeostasis, and the imprint of vulnerability to various protocols such as restriction in food intake or changes in specific hormonal patterns, generally precede the onset of the age-dependent increase in mortality.

Finally, longevity, as evidenced in long- or short-lived genetic variants, in stress resistance phenotypes reflecting robust health throughout history, or by extraordinary environmental manipulations, is usually the result of co-diminution with disease-free lifespan.

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