Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1994 Dec 20;91(26):12453-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.91.26.12453.
Universal scaling relations for basal metabolism, heart rate, and life-span are presented in a physically transparent form with no adjustable parameters. Their accuracy is a few percent for animals ranging from invertebrates to mammals. They suggest that natural death is related to irreparable molecular damage to specific cells or molecules.
基础代谢、心率和寿命的通用标度关系以一种物理上透明的形式呈现,且没有可调整的参数。对于从无脊椎动物到哺乳动物的各类动物而言,它们的准确度约为百分之几。这些关系表明,自然死亡与特定细胞或分子的不可修复的分子损伤有关。