Methuselah meets diabetes

BioEssays

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 113-115

  Thomas, James H ^a   Inoue, Takao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; AGE-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DAF 2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; DAF-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; HELMINTH PROTEIN; INSULIN; INSULIN RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE;

AGING; ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENE; GENETICS; LONGEVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; AGING; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; INSULIN; LONGEVITY; RECEPTOR, INSULIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0032006181     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199802)20:2<113::AID-BIES3>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Review

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