Reduced expression levels of the senescence biomarker clusterin/ apolipoprotein J in lymphocytes from healthy centenarians

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1067, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 294-300

  Trougakos, Ioannis P ^a   Petropoulou, Chariklia ^a   Franceschi, Claudio ^b   Gonos, Efstathios S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Centenarians; Clusterin apolipoprotein J; Lymphocytes; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CLUSTERIN; GLYCOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLU GENE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; ITALY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LONGEVITY; LYMPHOCYTE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMATURE AGING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; STRESS; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 33744458971     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1354.039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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