Effects of caloric restriction on gene expression along the epididymis of the Brown Norway rat during aging

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 549-560

  Jervis, Kathryn M ^a   Robaire, Bernard ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gene arrays; Mitochondria; Oxidative phosphorylation; Ribosomal proteins; Ribosomes

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENYLATE KINASE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; CALCINEURIN; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE D; CD24 ANTIGEN; CLUSTERIN; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLIN D1; CYCLIN D2; CYCLIN D3; CYCLINE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; ELONGATION FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GASTRIC INHIBITORY POLYPEPTIDE; GELATINASE A; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; INITIATION FACTOR 2; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C JUN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RAB PROTEIN; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 5;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIDIDYMIS TAIL; GENE EXPRESSION; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0038667822     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(03)00034-2     Document Type: Article

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