Transcriptome analysis of age-, gender- and diet-associated changes in murine thymus

Cellular Immunology

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 42-61

  Lustig, Ana ^a   Weeraratna, Ashani T ^a   Wood III, William W ^a   Teichberg, Diane ^a   Bertak, Dorothy ^a   Carter, Arnell ^a   Poosala, Suresh ^a   Firman, Jeffrey ^a   Becker, Kevin G ^a   Zonderman, Alan B ^a   Longo, Dan L ^a   Taub, Dennis D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

AGEMAP; Aging; Caloric restriction; Involution; Microarray; Thymocytes; Thymus

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMUS FUNCTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; CALORIC RESTRICTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PROTEINS; THYMUS GLAND;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 34248659129     PISSN: 00088749     EISSN: 10902163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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