The DNA repair protein ku is involved in gp130-mediated signal transduction events in PBMC from young but not from elderly subjects

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 321-328

  Frasca, Daniela ^a   Scarpaci, Salvatore ^a   Barattini, Paola ^a   Bartoloni, Carlo ^b   Guidi, Luisa ^b   Costanzo, Mario ^b   Doria, Gino ^c  

^a ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

DNA repair; DNA dependent protein kinase; Peripheral blood mononuclear cell; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 130; INTERLEUKIN 6; KU ANTIGEN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR GP130; CYTOPLASM; DNA; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TYK2 KINASE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037012023     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(01)00199-1     Document Type: Article

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