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Biological ageing research in the Netherlands
1Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare, NIZW, P.O. Box 19152, 3500 DD Utrecht, The Netherlands. p.huijbers@nizw.nl
Abstract:
After an introduction on the development of biological ageing research in the Netherlands during the past decades, 606 papers on aging published by Dutch institutes in the period 1991-2000, collected from PubMed, were analysed for their relevance to research into biological ageing. For the period 1996-2000, the total number of research papers on biological ageing amounted to 142, which accounts for 23% of all publications on ageing in that period. The number of publications per year did not change. On the basis of these papers and additional information provided by research groups a comprehensive overview of biological ageing research in the Netherlands is presented, together with an extensive literature list. Ageing of the central nervous system (CNS), of the endocrinological system and of the cardiovascular system are the topics most studied. It is concluded that general biological ageing research has not increased in the Netherlands over the last ten years, and that the infrastructure for basic biological ageing research in the Netherlands is weak.
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