Insulin/IGF signalling and ageing: Seeing the bigger picture

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 287-292

  Gems, David ^a   Partridge, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; INSULIN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; PROLACTIN; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN RECEPTOR 1; THYROTROPIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALORIC RESTRICTION; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MOUSE MUTANT; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035370372     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(00)00192-1     Document Type: Review

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