Genomic response of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to spaceflight

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 807-815

  Selch, Florian ^a,b   Higashibata, Akira ^c   Imamizo Sato, Mari ^d   Higashitani, Atsushi ^e   Ishioka, Noriaki ^c   Szewczyk, Nathaniel J ^a,f,g   Conley, Catharine A ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d Co Ltd   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Dauer; Insulin; Microarray; Spaceflight; TGF

Indexed keywords

GENES; GROWTH KINETICS; HEALTH CARE; MICROARRAYS; SPACE FLIGHT;

DAUER; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; SPACEFLIGHT;

INSULIN;

EID: 39049084746     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.11.015     Document Type: Article

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