Identification of Caenorhabditis elegans genes regulating longevity using enhanced RNAi-sensitive strains

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 72, Issue , 2007, Pages 489-497

  Samuelson, A V ^a,b   Klimczak, R R ^c   Thompson, D B ^a   Carr, C E ^a,d   Ruvkun, G ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN APS 3; PROTEIN LYS 10; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DAF 2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; DAF-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; INSULIN RECEPTOR; PARAQUAT;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; LIFE EXTENSION; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; LYSOSOME; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TEMPERATURE STRESS; TISSUES; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENES, HELMINTH; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; LONGEVITY; MUTATION; PARAQUAT; PIGMENTATION; RECEPTOR, INSULIN; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 48249110913     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2007.72.068     Document Type: Conference Paper

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