Hormone-treated Snell dwarf mice regain fertility but remain long lived and disease resistant

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1244-1250

  Vergara, Maggie ^a   Smith Wheelock, Michael ^a   Harper, James M ^a   Sigler, Robert ^b   Miller, Richard A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Esperion Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

^c VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; LEVOTHYROXINE; THYROXINE;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY WEIGHT; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; IMMATURITY; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MATURATION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 13444249466     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/59.12.1244     Document Type: Article

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