Reproductive aging / Maxine Weinstein and Kathleen O'Connor, issue editors.

Boston : Blackwell Publishing on behalf ot the New York Academy of Sciences, 2010.

198 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

"This volume presents manuscripts stemming from "The Workshop on Reproductive Aging," held on June 5-6, 2009 at Georgetown University."

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Reproductive aging : theoretical perspectives, mechanisms, nonhuman models, and health correlates / John Haaga, ... [et al.] -- Life historical perspectives on human reproductive aging / Peter T. Ellison -- The connections between general and reproductive senescence and the evolutionary basis of menopause / Thomas B.L. Kirkwood and Daryl P. Shanley -- Learning, menopause, and the human adaptive complex / Hillard Kaplan ... [et al.] -- Do women stop early? Similarities in fertility decline in humans and chimpanzees / Kristen Hawkes and Ken R. Smith -- An evolutionary and life history perspective on human male reproductive senescence / Richard G. Bribiescas -- Dynamic heterogeneity and life histories / Shripad Tuljapurkar and Ulrich K. Steiner -- Mechanisms of reproductive aging : conserved mechanisms and environmental factors / Mary Ann Ottinger -- Ovarian aging in developmental and evolutionary contexts / Caleb E. Finch and Donna J. Holmes -- Relating smoking, obesity, insulin resistance, and ovarian biomarker changes to the final menstrual period / MaryFran R. Sowers ... [et al.] -- Estrogen and the aging brain : an elixir for the weary cortical network / Dani Dumitriu ... [et al.] -- The hypothalamic median eminence and its role in reproductive aging / Weiling Yin and Andrea C. Gore -- Animal models of reproductive aging : what can they tell us? / Steven N. Austad -- Life history context of reproductive aging in a wild primate model / Jeanne Altmann ... [et al.] -- Reproductive aging in tephritid fruit flies / James R. Carey and Freerk Molleman -- Reproductive aging in invertebrate genetic models / Marc Tatar -- A pathway that links reproductive status to lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans / Cynthia Kenyon -- Health consequences of reproductive aging : a commentary / Siobán D. Harlow -- Reproductive aging, menopause, and health outcomes / JoAnn V. Pinkerton and Dale W. Stovall -- Reproductive aging and its consequences for general health / Michael L. Traub and Nanette Santoro -- Longitudinal, epidemiologic studies of female reproductive aging / Rebecca J. Ferrell and MaryFran Sowers.

Includes bibliographical references.