Life span: Getting the signal from the nervous system

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 212-216

  Wolkow, Catherine A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; FREE RADICAL; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN AGE 1; PROTEIN CTL 1; PROTEIN DAF 2; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; SUPEROXIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAF 16; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; INSULIN LIKE ACTIVITY; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; NEMATODE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRESS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INSULIN; LONGEVITY; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0036542955     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-2236(02)02133-1     Document Type: Review

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