Genetic analysis of hyl-1, the C. elegans homolog of LAG1/LASS1

Age

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-10

  Tedesco, Patricia ^a   Jiang, James ^b,c   Wang, Jinqing ^b   Jazwinski, S Michal ^b,c   Johnson, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Ceramide synthase; Compensation; IIL pathway; RNAi; Stress resistance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYL 1 GENE; LAG 1 GENE; LASSI GENE; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; YEAST;

EID: 39049141762     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: 15744647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-007-9042-z     Document Type: Article

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