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Letter to the Editor|Volume 3, Issue 11|pp 1120—1123

Aging as a particular case of phenoptosis, the programmed death of an organism (A response to Kirkwood and Melov “On the programmed/non-programmed nature of ageing within the life history”)

Vladimir P. Skulachev1
  • 1Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vorobyevy Gory 1, Moscow 119991, Russia
Received: December 1, 2011Published: December 6, 2011

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