The cell nucleus and aging: Tantalizing clues and hopeful promises: Recent evidence links structural proteins in the cell nucleus with aging

PLoS Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1855-1859

  Scaffidi, Paola ^a   Gordon, Leslie ^b   Misteli, Tom ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGERIA; PROTEIN DEFECT; REVIEW; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; FACIES; GENETICS; GENOME; GERIATRICS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; METABOLISM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

FREE RADICAL; LAMIN A;

AGING; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES; FACIES; FREE RADICALS; GENOME; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; LAMIN TYPE A; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROGERIA;

EID: 27844561561     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030395     Document Type: Review

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