New directions for studying the role of free radicals in aging

Journal of the American Aging Association

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 151-163

  Pahlavani, Mohammad A ^a,b   Van Remmen, Holly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Overexpression and deletion of genes; Oxidative stress; Signal transduction; Transcription factors, Antioxidant defense, Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; FREE RADICAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1;

AGED; AGING; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

EID: 0031545015     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-997-0014-0     Document Type: Article

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