Direct observation of stress response in Caenorhabditis elegans using a reporter transgene

Cell Stress and Chaperones

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 235-242

  Link, Christopher D ^a   Cypser, James R ^a   Johnson, Carolyn J ^a   Johnson, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; ASCORBIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; SUPEROXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; HEAT SHOCK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; STRESS; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0032706619     PISSN: 13558145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1379/1466-1268(1999)004<0235:DOOSRI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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