Yeast aging research: Recent advances and medical relevance

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 9-10, 1999, Pages 807-816

  Sinclair, D A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Helicase; Metabolism; Nucleolus; Retrograde signaling; Senescence; Silencing; Yeast

Indexed keywords

AGING; DNA METABOLISM; FERTILITY; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; LONGEVITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032698165     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000180050027     Document Type: Review

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